Pastoral Ministry · Intermediate
Church Discipline
Church discipline is the loving care by which a local church teaches, corrects, and, when a professing believer will not turn from open sin, removes him from membership, always aiming to restore him to Christ and His people.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What you'll learn
1
Why discipline is an act of love, and why its goal is restoration
2
The steps Jesus gave in Matthew 18, and when a church acts more quickly under 1 Corinthians 5
3
Why the congregation takes the last step, with pastors leading
4
How a church guards privacy, uses legal wisdom, and reports crime to the authorities
5
How a church forgives and receives back a member who repents
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