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Apr 10, 2024 · If your church has an established protocol for disciplining individual Christians' sin within their church, that's pure legalism. There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
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Mar 10, 2014 · Church discipline clarifies and burnishes the church’s witness before the nations. Church discipline warns sinners of an even greater judgment to come. Most importantly, church discipline protects the name and reputation of Jesus Christ on earth.
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- Jesus and Paul Both Command Churches to Practice Church Discipline.
- “Church Discipline” Goes by Different Names.
- Nearly Every Organization Practices Discipline.
- Churches Should Practice Discipline For The Sake of Love.
- Church Discipline Was A Common Practice Among Churches Until The 20th Century.
- The Goal of Discipline Is Always Restoration.
- Churches Must Take Great Care Against Abuses of Discipline.
- “When Discipline Leaves A Church, Christ Goes with it.”
Church discipline is not man’s idea, but God’s. Whatever Jesus meant by “You shall not judge” in Matthew 7, he didn’t mean to rule out loving correction between Christians, as he describes it in Matthew 18:15-20. Paul then takes Jesus's words seriously and exhorts the Corinthian church to put Jesus’s instructions into practice (compare Matthew 18:2...
The term “church discipline” is employed in different ways, and people use different terms for discipline. Broadly, people might make a distinction between formative discipline (referring to teaching) and corrective discipline(referring to correcting sin). Inside the category of corrective discipline, people might use the term “church discipline” t...
In spite of its biblical basis, the idea of church discipline can be controversial among Christians and churches, even though people readily accept the fact that other organizations or group must have some means of correcting or removing its members. A fraudulent lawyer can be debarred. A volatile player in the NBA can be fined. A malpracticing doc...
There are many wrong motivations for church discipline, which have led to abuses in the process. The one right motivation for discipline is love. “The Lord disciplines the one he loves” (Heb. 12:6). Churches should practice discipline for the sake of loving the individual caught in sin, that he or she might come to repentance (1 Cor. 5:5); for the ...
In the 19th century, Baptist churches in America excommunicated an average of 2% of their members per year, and yet the growth of these churches outpaced general population growth. Toward the end of the 19th and early 20th century, churches became more interested in reforming society (e.g., temperance movements) than in reforming themselves. The ad...
Paul could not be clearer: “You are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord” (1 Cor. 5:5).
Church discipline can become abusive in a number of ways: leaving the decision in the hands of one or a few instead of the whole congregation; relying on regulated processes instead of individual pastoral care; being characterized by a fundamentalistic mindset that’s uncomfortable with the tensions which are inevitable in a fallen world and insisti...
So said Baptist theologian John L. Dagg. And he was right. A shepherd that won’t fend off the wolves will soon find his sheep consumed. Everything in our culture rages against any idea of correction or exclusion because it feels intolerant. But Christ means for his churches to be trained, exercised, and disciplined so that they will share in his ho...
Definition. Church discipline is the process of correcting sin in the life of the congregation and its members. Summary. Church discipline typically starts privately and informally, growing to include the whole church only when necessary.
Feb 25, 2010 · One of the most effective ways to prevent such lawsuits is to adopt explicit biblical policies that comprehensively describe how your church will exercise discipline over unrepentant members. These policies will provide your church with one of the most effective defenses to any lawsuit: informed consent.
Aug 13, 2006 · The church must practice biblical church discipline toward professing Christians who persist in known sin. Perhaps no verse is so taken out of context and misapplied as Matthew 7:1, “Do not judge so that you will not be judged.”.
Jan 9, 2018 · Churches should work hard against the possibility of abusive church discipline, and we should act quickly against it. In my writing and speaking on this topic, most of the churches I address suffer from complacency and laxity in discipline.
