Hospital or Hide-out?

I've been thinking about one of the most powerful sermons in Jeremiah.

When we come to Christ as church, I think that two principles are essential.

1. Church is a hospital for sinners
BUT
2. Church should not be a hide-out for rebels

But, how can the two be held together when we - the people who come for healing - are by nature rebels against God?

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the LORD.
(Jeremiah 7:1-11)

In Christ we find safety from our sins, not safety to continue in sin. This is why we welcome all people no matter what they have done; and this is also why we take discipleship and church discipline seriously.

Many people who have no regard for God and his ways go to church and essentially say: 'the church of Christ, the church of Christ, the church of Christ' and they say say 'we are safe-safe to do all sorts of detestable things.'

Many others come as broken sinners and look for healing from Christ. We come clean to God with our failures. He covers our sins, we don't.

Church can be a safe place to come to God, but a most dangerous place to hide from him. Look at the last eight words of the quote above.