We are long overdue for a sustained argument about the purpose and means of church discipline as well as the broader role of Christian discipline in the life of individual Christians and Christian communities. By church discipline, I mean some sort of formalized process that an individual congregation or denomination would enact in order to correct lay people or clergy that have fallen into serious and unrepentant sin. By Christian discipline, I mean the broader set of practices and habits that are conducive to the Christian life.
There are three main reasons for this need, each of which we’re going to cover below.
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