Tell it to the church for what purpose?

What is always the purpose of discipline?

Restoration. So what do you tell the church?

Church, go after them.

An individual went, no response.

Two or three went, no response.

Now we all go.

And we just, we drown them.

Her brother drifts away into sin.

You go.

Thank you. brother drifts away into sin, you go. Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

In handling matters of criminal law, lawyers follow a set of procedures.

One of the more usual ones is to call on the

testimony of eyewitnesses. Well, the Bible outlines specific ways, actually a step-by-step

formula for dealing with sin in the church, and it can call for witnesses. But what role do they play,

and when are they necessary? Today, John

MacArthur considers those and other aspects of this thing called church discipline, continuing

his study called My Brother's Keeper. But before the lesson, there's something we can't say often

enough, and that is thank you to the people who run this station. John, I know

that these people are dear to you, so tell our listeners why that is. Well, station managers and

station owners and station staff are obviously partners with us. I mean, radio depends on radio

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