© DOUGLAS JACOBY, 1994.

What does the Bible really say about church discipline? The view of the traditional Church of Christ has much to commend it, and we’ve adopted this view more or less wholesale. Yet it may be time to reconsider.

INTRODUCTION

I. THREE STRIKES AND YOU’RE OUT?

II. MATTHEW 18
A. Translation point: Matthew 18.15
B. Reconciliation, not warning
C. Bad-attitude people
D. Application

III. LUKE 17: Seven sins and seven fresh starts

IV. TITUS 3
A. Two warnings or three?
B. A word about divisiveness
C. Note: Psalm 37:37 is another example of persons being "marked," though in this case in a positive way.

V. 1 CORINTHIANS 5
A. Expulsion in 1 Corinthians
B. Sins leading to Expulsion
C. The Public Warning?

VI. 2 THESSALONIANS 3
A. Grace false and true
B. Still saved

VII. 3 JOHN 10

CONCLUSION

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