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Jesus, in his ministry, received the empty, the broken, the lost and the diseased. Mark Lauterbach shows how compassion, mediated through a functioning body of believers, provides the answers to human waywardness and maintains the integrity of the Church. Although this is a book about church discipline, it is really about a Spirit-empowered community. Mark uses real situations from his experience...

that looks like. There is much talk today about the church being a community. I hope to show what it will look like in practice. This could be seen as a book on Church Discipline. It is really a book about Spirit-empowered Community. Church discipline is not something we “do” to someone in sin. Church discipline is the constant activity of a church where holiness and love are pursued. We should always be watching over each other, encouraging each other daily against the possibility of a hardened
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