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What is Meant by "Church Discipline," and What Does it Involve?
Meaning Matrix
We've already seen how Jesus' maxim judge not, lest ye be judged has been misused to avert rebuke or correction from other Christians.
We've also seen that both Jesus and Paul actually mandate certain kinds of
judgment in John 7 and 1Cor 5.
What remains then is to define the ways in which we are commanded
to judge within the church. And this is simply to ask the question, What
is meant by "church discipline, and what does it involve?"
In its broadest sense, church discipline is the whole complex
of teaching, preaching, structures, practices, and censures which clarifies
acceptable behavior from that which is unacceptable for members of a local
church.
This broad definition may be broken down into the formative
and corrective aspects of church discipline.
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