small group or your most fruitful weekday ministry or whatever happens on stage or your favorite mission trip—then something like “disciplining non-attenders” will seem implausible, invasive, strange, even cruel. But when you think about the church in the way the Bible does—as unified and alive, as redeemed persons who now comprise a redeemed people—then I suspect it won’t seem so implausible or invasive or strange or cruel but rather plausible, expected, righteous, and even kind. Put simply, a lone-ranger