1. False conversions deceive the individuals themselves about their state before the Lord. In 1 Corinthians Paul gives one reason for why the church should put the hypocritical man out of their fellowship—so that his spirit may be “saved on the day of the Lord” (5:5). It is not loving or right for a congregation to leave men and women made in the image of God with the impression that they are reconciled to God when the truth is, other than some decision recorded decades earlier, there is no evidence