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Welcome to questions and ethics with Russell Moore, where we apply the Gospel of the

kingdom to cultural issues and your questions about the Christian life.

And now here's your host.

Hello, I'm Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,

and you're listening to questions and ethics.

This is the program where we take a question that you're struggling with and look at it through

the lens of the Kingdom of Christ is found in the Bible.

Our question today comes from a man who writes in named Tony who says Dr Moore I'm having a difficult time

Our church has recovered what we believe to be the biblical understanding of church discipline.

We have someone who was involved in persistent sin, wouldn't repent, so we followed the

Matthew 18 steps toward church discipline ending at excommunication.

We removed him from the membership of the church.

Tony says, I ran into this guy at a local restaurant and he wanted to talk and we ordered a meal and we sat and

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