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What is church discipline? Instructive: teaching [training], exhorting, warning, correcting (Eph 4:11-16, 2 Tim 4:2). Punitive: identifying, withdrawing,

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2 What is church discipline? Instructive: teaching [training], exhorting, warning, correcting (Eph 4:11-16, 2 Tim 4:2). Punitive: identifying, withdrawing, & urging change (2 Thess 3:6, 14-15).

3 Reasons for … discipline: Command – 2 Thess 3:6; 1 Cor 5:4-5 Purity – 1 Cor 5:6-7; Eph 5:26 Communication – Acts 5:11; 2 Thess 3:14; Rom 16:17; 1 Tim 5:20; Acts 5:12-14 Salvation – 1 Cor 5:5; 2 Thess 3:14-15

4 Instruments of … discipline: Instruments of … discipline: Shepherds, elders – Acts 20:28; Ezra 9:1-3; Ezra 10:1-4 Members – 1 Cor 5:9-13; 2 Thess 3:14; Matt 18:15-18 Family – 2 Thess 3:14-15

5 Discipline: what’s it about? 1.Maintaining the purity of the church. 2.Sending the right message to both members & unbelievers. 3.Bringing erring brethren to repentance & the salvation of their souls.


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