Article 1, Section 5, Paragraph 2
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
Each House may determine the Rules
Without order, Sin reigns.
A group is only as good as its members. Rules mean nothing unless they are followed.
Rules can provide structure and enable one to know what is not acceptable. They act as a schoolmaster.
Galatians 3:24, "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith."
However rules can become obtrusive and abusive. Rule making was left up to the houses to do and use.
Rules are for ungodly people, who reject righteousness.
1 Timothy 1:8-10, "But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;"
Rules would not be necessary if the members were godly.
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