what Happens To a Christian that refuses To confess/repent of Sins Before God?

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I'm not exactly sure what you're asking about. A professed believer who displays no repentance from sin is in a dangerous place. Christians do sin. They may even fall into a bad way for a continued period of time; but part of the Christian life is repentance. In fact, repentance is central to the Christian faith. An unwillingness to recognize their sin, and to confess and turn from it, displays a calloused heart to the Holy Spirit. While we cannot say dogmatically, such actions display an unregenerate heart; not the heart of a child of God. I would fear for such a person.

 

Thanks for the clarification.

The reason I refer to such individuals as "professed believers" is because their refusal to repent from sin undermines their profession. If a church member refuses to repent they open themselves up to progressive church discipline. If their heart remains hardened throughout all attempts to call them to repentance, then they face the prospect of excommunication. The result? They are to be treated by the church as an unbeliever. Regular fellowship and the graces of the church are withheld. That doesn't mean they are to be persecuted or their family shunned; especially if the family is continuing in fellowship in the church. We should pray for such a person that God will grant them repentance and save them.

 

Oh Herald.....Ive seen that work both ways. Ive seen a youth pastor at an IFB church vilified, fired & labeled as a reprobate because the youth pastor believed in doctrines of Grace & the Head Pastor was violently apposed to it....so he used church discipline as a means to restrict the Youth Pastors desires to follow that path in his Soterology......Even to telling everyone that the Church would NOT be blessed because of the Youth Pastors belief system.....effectively making the Youth Pastor a outsider in his own church community

 

This is unfortunate, but just because authority an/or accountability can be abused does not mean we should do away with it.

 

My view is that a true believer can, in fact, lost his fellowship with the Lord. But he cannot lose his relationship.

When I disobeyed my father, relationship was unaffected, but our fellowship was not the same.

 

I agree, the fellowship is not the same, but it is not lost. The fellowship does not end, it just changes.

 

If a genuine Christian and they sin again and do not confess. God will correct them. I just have a problem believing a true Christian would refuse to confess. A corection from God can be life threatening. Just look at what happened to Jonah.
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