{"id":250,"date":"2006-08-09T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=250"},"modified":"2009-11-26T02:54:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T02:54:39","slug":"the-power-of-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another thing that Bartley mentions (in passing) near the beginning of the book (mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=249\" onClick=\"popWin=open('http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=249','myWin',''); popWin.focus(); return false\">here<\/a>) is the way the church could exclude people, and through exclusion exercise power and control.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very limited form of control, by exclusion one is not actively controlling the life of the excluded, one is simply controlling one&#8217;s own life (or a group are simply controlling their own lives) and choosing not to spend much\/any time with that particular person.<\/p>\n<p>However, to exclude someone, a tough judgement has to take place: Is this person so bad\/far gone that it isn&#8217;t wise to spend time with them? That isn&#8217;t a nice and easy question to answer, it has hard repercussions. It is also a fairly public judgement that can have a negative effect on oneself (alongside the positive effect of not being adversely influenced by that person).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tough thing to do, but I do feel that it is a choice that we must continually make. Yes, it is part of the concept of exclusive church (hopefully alongside inclusive mission) and also we can&#8217;t expect exclusion to be perfectly exercised &#8211; there will always be the &#8216;weeds&#8217; amongst the &#8216;wheat&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I expect that Bartley will cover this more in the rest of the book &#8211; so maybe there will be more comment to come on this.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i-to-i.irexnet.com\/?a_christmas_carol\">A Christmas Carol full<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another thing that Bartley mentions (in passing) near the beginning of the book is the way the church could exclude people, and through exclusion exercise power and control. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=250\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}