Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
When does tolerance go too far? We want to be seen as tolerant, understanding and wise in the ways that the world works. We want people who live in sin to feel like they can find a place of acceptance in the, church. After all, didn't Jesus himself dine with tax collectors and sinners? Look! How accepting we are! Not judgmental at all!
But where does it stop? If the church accepts behavior that even non-Christians find repulsive, how easy it is to justify--not just justify, but be proud of--almost any sin. At that point, we are indistinguishable from the world because we effectively advocating that sin.
"...you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler." (1 Cor. 5:11)
So we don't play with these things or wink at these things, but call them out for the destructive things that they are.
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