Exclusion v Inclusion

I know there are some that reject anything from the "emergent" thought, but there is much valuable there to appreciate. (Just test the fruit before accepting it).

One thing that I've heard from it which is beautiful is the view of membership that accepts and loves all, and deals with sin after. It is a realization that Jesus adds to his church, so membership is to our individual "communities", not a church. The church belongs to Jesus, not us. We welcome them into our community, then as we help them journey with Jesus, confronting sin comes later.

And as Greg Boyd writes in The Myth of a Christian Nation, we are never once called to be the moral guardians of anyone outside our fellowship, but rather we are instead called to love people the way that Jesus did, by meeting their needs and loving them even if they kill us in return. If sinners and tax collectors and prostitutes aren't coming around our community they way they came around Jesus, then why not? Do we love them like He did?

Now, my qualm with this viewpoint is in wanting "guidance" on when challenging sin is to be done. When along the way? But I'm starting to see that as my hangup, not a reason not to live and love and accept.