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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...

absolute confidentiality is an unbiblical concept, it serves only to keep persons who need the help of others from receiving it. Of even greater importance than the matter of hindering the process of discipline and thereby depriving those parties involved of the assistance they need, including the help of Christ working formally through His church, is the fact that absolute confidentiality requires one to make a hasty vow. No such vow to silence should ever be made. A rash vow of this sort may put us in