Talk:Church discipline

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• Reformation Study Bible has a great article on church discipline and excommunication
• WCF 30

Where’d I get this?

Somewhere along the way I picked up Rev 2:20–25, but now it doesn’t seem super relevant to me. Where’d I get this and what has it got to do with the topic at hand?

More references from Reformation Study Bible

To produce mature disciples, Christian learning, devotion, worship, righteousness, and service, are all to be taught in a context of care and accountability (Matt. 28:20; John 21:15–17; 2 Tim. 2:14–26; Titus 2; Heb. 13:17) among the other believers. Not abstractly, but in this context Reformed theology has emphasized the importance of church discipline as the official procedures of the church permitting it to define its membership and maintain its standards of belief and practice, derived from the Bible.

The New Testament clearly shows that in the whole context of church life judicial procedures have a significant place for the health of churches and individuals (1 Cor. 5:1–13; 2 Cor. 2:5–11; 2 Thess. 3:6, 14, 15; Titus 1:10–14; 3:9–11).

Westminster Confession on church censures

WCF XXX.I

Isa 9:6–7; 1Ti 5:17; 1Th 5:12; Ac 20:17–18; Heb 13:7, 17, 24; 1Co 12:28; Mt 28:18–20

WCF XXX.II

Mt 16:19; 18:17–18; Jn 20:21–23; 2Co 2:6–8

WCF XXX.III

1Co 5; 1Ti 5:20; Mt 7:6; 1Ti 1:20; 1Co 11:27–34; Jude 1:23

WCF XXX.IV

1Th 5:12; 2Th 3:6, 14–15; 1Co 5:4–5, 13; Mt 18:17; Tit 3:10