1 - BRITISH FELLOWSHIP BROKEN OVER ATONEMENT - OLD NEWS (Example)
Three of Great Britain's most prominent Christian groups have ended their 14-year conference partnership, scuttling the annual Word Alive youth event. At issue was disagreement over a speaker, the Rev. Steve Chalke.

…“The Word Alive committee, in good conscience, just didn’t feel it would be appropriate, during that week, for Steve Chalke to be given a platform,” said UCCF communications director Pod Bhogal. “Steve Chalke has made his dislike of penal substitution really, really clear, and … we didn’t feel the nature of the atonement was one of those things you could agree to disagree over.”

Chalke’s theology first came into question in 2003 with the publication of his book The Lost Message of Jesus. In it, Chalke, the senior minister of Church.co.uk and founder of Oasis Trust and Faithworks, compared the prevailing Protestant view of the atonement to divine child abuse.

“[W]ouldn’t it be inconsistent for God to warn us not to be angry with each other and yet burn with wrath himself [against sin and sinners]?” he later wrote in an article defending his position. “I, for one, believe that God practices what he preaches.”

SOURCE: Trammel, Madison. Cross Purposes
July 2, 2007. Christianity Today

COMMENT: The WELS is not the only Christian group which has to wrestle with the question on whether or not to allow speakers with poor doctrine to present issues at their conferences. I would like to know how Chalke understands the crucifixion of God's Son. What about all of God's statements about his anger and repulsion toward sin. The cross is the only way that justice and mercy are executed without either being denied.

2 - DEMOTING FALSE TEACHERS - OLD NEWS
Last week the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, proposed that groups within the Communion that adhere to views that are not widely shared by Anglicans, such as gay ordination, accept a lesser status within in the Communion.

SOURCE: Reynolds, Diane. Defining a faith
July 3, 2006. Carroll County Times – Religion

COMMENT: Now that’s a different take on Fellowship… It's not exactly “watch and avoid,” but rather demotion. Admonition, if not accepted, must turn to expulsion - "treat as a pagan and tax collector."