I’ve heard about some ugly church meetings before (when you’re in seminary as long as I was you hear “war stories” like this). But this church meeting in North Carolina evidently got it on! Interesting that our church is currently working through 1 Corinthians, which was a pretty messed up church itself. In fact, yesterday’s message from chapter 5, where Paul admonishes the church for airing their disputes in the local courts via lawsuits and such, which smears the name of Christ and the witness of the church. So while we can look at this story from North Carolina and be tempted to smirk, in reality it’s a sad and ugly situation.