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Handbook of Church Discipline: A Right and Privilege of Every Church Member is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a handbook for pastors, elders, and all Christians who want to see how Scripture presents the process of discipline that should operate in the Christian community. It was written in response to the various concerns that threaten to tear apart marriages, families, friendships, and congregations--concerns that call for a biblical approach to discipline that can heal fractures, restore right...

(e.g„ 1 Corinthians 10:30), While these men had made shipwreck of their faith, Paul entertains the hope that the “discipline” of removal and, in particular, of being handed over to Satan will “teach” them. So, unlike the Old Testament removal, New Testament church discipline has an additional, remedial function. We see it, of course, in the repentance and restoration of the man at Corinth. Careful records of proceedings and decisions relating to all official discipline (step 4,