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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Restoration
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:05:06 EST

Dear Beverly,
Unlike today when anything seems to fly in our churches, it seems that
the churches of previous times really expected their members to uphold the
standards of their denominations by their actions and their words.
So if a person failed to maintain the standards of the church in a
marked way (say a woman gossiped notoriously, or a man was given to public
drunkeness, or a person merely spoke against the teachings of the
denomination), they were often excommunicated from the fellowship
involuntarily----in other words, kicked out.
If they "came to their senses" so to speak, and wished to be a member
of the church again, they had to apologize and prove to the elders of the
church their contrition and that they really had amended their behaviour.
When they had done this they were then RESTORED to the full fellowship of the
church.
According to Phyllis D'Autrechy's Some Records of Old Hunterdon County
the Kingwood Baptist Church Record Book 1742-1824 shows my own
ggg-grandparents were excluded from the fellowship of the Kingwood Baptist
Church on March 4, 1793 and they were restored on February 28, 1796. (The
exact reason is not stated, but seemed to have to do with doctrinal matters.)

Sincerely,
Kay Larsen

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