Why We Need Church Discipline

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Why do so many churches avoid church discipline? Is Church discipline a vital practice for a healthy church? In this episode, Dale and Veronica look to Scripture to determine the Bible’s call for the church in this matter.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Real Christianity, a weekly show designed to help Christians know their Bible,
0:04.8	defend their faith, and truly understand what it means to follow Jesus.
0:09.0	The premise is simple.
0:10.3	The culture is getting louder.
0:12.0	The church is getting flashier, but few pastors are teaching on how to live a biblical
0:16.9	life.
0:17.9	My name is Dale Partridge, along with my incredible wife, Veronica.
0:21.1	Join us as we start an important conversation about what it really means to be a Christian.
1:01.0	Welcome to Real Christianity.
1:05.0	Today we are talking about why we need church discipline.
1:09.4	This is an important conversation about church discipline.
1:12.2	Guys, so many of you have asked me about it and wondering why maybe your church hasn't
1:18.2	participated in church discipline.
1:20.2	I mean, when was the last time you saw your elders gather together to investigate a moral
1:27.5	failure of someone at your church who is in sin?
1:31.2	I mean, I know it's a private matter, but have you seen that happen before?
1:35.8	A lot of people have not.
1:37.8	Or they just haven't even heard how to go about it.
1:40.6	Yeah, and a lot of people have never seen someone actually removed from the church because
1:48.8	they were in persistent, unrepentant sin while calling themselves a Christian.
1:55.6	We need to figure out why is church discipline so foreign to the modern institutional church.
2:04.1	Then we're also going to talk about the Bible's command for church discipline and why it's so vital
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