a sinning believer that may preclude public rebuke, the supposition surfaces that the elder discipline process need continue only until repentance occurs.19 Though possible, it is unlikely that Paul assumed Timothy would have initiated the first two steps of discipline according to Matthew 18:15–20 before a public rebuking of the guilty elder occurred. Paul seems to have set aside these preliminary steps of Matthean discipline when he publicly refuted Peter at Antioch (Gal. 2:14) and when he delivered