To properly understand the church's role in discipline, and how we as members of Christ's community ought to go about doing it, we must properly understand this passage in its context.
Here we examine the process of biblical church discipline according to the great Master: if we properly understand this text, we can thus properly administer discipline.
Of course, discipline must first be viewed in a positive light, as its goal is primarily restoration of the sinner: with God and with the church.
We also realize that we need to do so with humility, gentleness, and an awareness of the seriousness of sin's effects in the human heart.
The foundation or cornerstone must be laid for a strong edifice. This passage is that support structure.
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Ryan Case has a passion to see the lost ushered into the Kingdom of God, as well as to see Christ's redeemed grow in all knowledge and grace. His 'heroes of the faith' include John Piper, D.A. Carson, and C.H. Spurgeon. Ryan graduated from the Toronto Baptist Seminary and was...