The church is not a hospital, the church is the people who gather together to worship God. When we come together we are to observe the Lord's supper and to have already confessed sin before we gather.
The righteous are righteous because of Christ, we become well from becoming born again, it is in the Spiritual.
Those who are not yet born again and deeply invested in their sin, should not be in our worship. When they become born again because someone gave them the gospel and they repented, then that person will come to the gathering as a believer who has been changed into a new creation.
Unbelievers cannot worship our God, they can only water down our worship, often causing trouble in the body because they are not interested in the principles of God, nor are they interested in holiness.
If a gathering of believers wants to hold a gospel service for non-believers that is fine, but they should not come into our worship, that is for worship alone and often includes the building up of the saints, to equip them to go out into the world with the gospel. These times are not for those who hate our God.
Perhaps the modern church uses the building where the church meet on worship day because they are too fearful and lazy to go into the world around them with the gospel.
Our modern apostate churches have endorsed and promoted worldly gatherings watered down to make the unsaved happy, turning the gatherings into events that rival night clubs.
2 Corinthians 5:16-18 "…16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” 17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” 18 And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”…"
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