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Church Discipline
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1. History In the course of church history, church discipline has sought to fashion and safeguard Christian living as a response to the preached Word. It falls somewhere between Christian ethics and church law. NT statements form the starting point for discipline within the church, for example, the dominical saying in Matt. 18:15–18 concerning the settlement of disputes among Christians, or the saying about the power of the keys in Matt. 16:18–19. The primitive practice of expulsion and forgiveness is reflected in 1 Cor. 5:1–6 and 2 Cor. 2:5–11. Church discipline relates fundamenta…
