who does wrong ought to pay. But the purpose of Christian discipline isn’t to punish! It’s to restore. We’re not out to make a person suffer for his sins. Christ has already suffered for those. What we’re out to do is to bring a sinner back to righteousness and to fellowship with the Lord. Repentance—turning away from the sin and back to God—is everything. How we need to remember this in our families, with our spouses, with our children. We punish to restore, not to make a person pay. Afterward, as