10 Things You Should Know about Church Discipline (Jonathan Leeman)

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today, we're excited to share with you an audio essay written and read by Jonathan Leeman entitled 10 Things You Should Know about Church Discipline. Jonathan Leeman is the author of Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus. He is the editorial director for 9Marks and cohost of the Pastors’ Talk podcast. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books and teaches at several seminaries. Jonathan lives with his wife and four daughters in a suburb of Washington, DC, and is an elder at Cheverly Baptist Church. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show!

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0:00.0	Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Jonathan Lehman,
0:07.2	entitled Ten Things You Should Know About Church Discipline.
0:11.1	Jonathan is the author of the book, Church Discipline, How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus from Crossway.
0:17.1	Ten Things You Should Know About Church Discipline discipline written and read by Jonathan Lehman.
0:25.1	Number one, Jesus and Paul both command churches to practice church discipline.
0:31.2	Church discipline is not man's idea, but gods.
0:34.7	Whatever Jesus meant by, you shall not judge in Matthew 7, he didn't mean to rule out
0:40.0	loving correction between Christians, as he describes it in Matthew 18, 15 to 20. Paul then takes
0:46.7	Jesus' words seriously and exhorts the Corinthian Church to put Jesus' instructions into practice.
0:53.1	Compare Matthew 1820 and 1 Corinthians 5'4. Do we know better than Paul?
0:59.6	Number two, church discipline goes by different names. The term church discipline is employed in
1:05.5	different ways, and people use different terms for discipline. Broadly, people might make a
1:10.6	distinction between formative discipline, referring to teaching, and correct for discipline. Broadly, people might make a distinction between formative
1:12.0	discipline, referring to teaching, and corrective discipline, referring to correcting sin. Inside the
1:17.9	category of corrective discipline, people might use the term church discipline to refer to any
1:22.4	act of correction, whether that involves privately and formally warning a friend or formally removing someone
1:29.9	from membership in a church. When it gets to this last step, people frequently use the word
1:35.0	excommunication. Among Protestants, excommunication does not refer to removing someone from
1:40.8	salvation, which the church is incapable of doing, it refers to removing someone
1:46.7	from membership in the church and participation in the Lord's Supper. To excommunicate is to
1:52.7	excommunion someone, kind of like a reverse baptism. Number three, nearly every organization practices church discipline.
2:03.4	In spite of its biblical basis, the idea of church discipline can be controversial among
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