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Those Who Must Give an Account: A Study of Church Membership and Church Discipline is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account.” --Hebrews 13:17a There is a surprising, even dangerous, gap in the literature on the church in the areas of church membership and church discipline. The former sets the boundaries of a leader’s responsibility, and discipline is the last option of a church when...

16), the next step is to “tell the church” (v. 17). Obviously, this does not refer to the universal or invisible church. Rather, the members of the believing community are to be informed about the situation. If the sinning person still refuses to repent, he is to be treated “like an unbeliever and a tax collector” (v. 17). This phrase indicates that the community of believers is to view this person as outside the community of faith. He is no longer regarded as a Christian and is no longer a member of
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