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Church discipline is essential to building a healthy church. Yet, how does a church practice discipline? How should church leaders handle the endless variety of circumstances and sins for which no scriptural case study exists? Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus is a contemporary and concise how-to guide that provides a theological framework for understanding and...

Jesus becomes so characteristic and habitual that the church no longer believes he or she is a Christian. The church must then remove its affirmation of a person’s profession of faith. This is the “gospel framework” approach to discipline that we considered in the last chapter. It’s not driven by lists of which sins qualify for discipline. It’s driven by the single question of whether a church can continue to publicly affirm a person’s profession of faith as credible. Within this framework, can we
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