The Erring The Church Our Families Ourselves A Study of Church Discipline Saving the Erring the Church Our Families and Ourselves Church discipline is an effort to save the erring save the church save our families and save ourselves ID: 538975
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Saving
The ErringThe ChurchOur FamiliesOurselves
(A Study of Church Discipline)Slide2
Saving the Erring, the Church, Our Families, and Ourselves
Church discipline is an effort to save the erring, save the church, save our families, and save ourselves.If we love God, care about the erring & want to save our families and ourselves – surely we want to follow God’s plan for saving the erring!No matter what our own thinking may be!No matter how difficult or painful the process may be!This is an emotionally charged subject
Because close friends and family are often involved
Some of the requirements of discipline are hard – in fact downright painful!
Much like the MDR issues – Emotion overshadows knowledge
Must begin with understanding that God’s way is best & works
Word of God is our standard (1 Pet. 4:11; Col. 3:17)
Comes down to a question of faithSlide3
Saving
The ErringThe ChurchOur FamiliesOurselves
(A Study of Church Discipline)
What is Discipline?
Personal Offenses
Public Offenses
The Forgotten & Misunderstood Command
The Purpose of Withdrawing & From Whom Should We Withdraw?
The Case at Corinth (1 Cor. 5) – Part 1
The Case at Corinth (1 Cor. 5 & 2 Cor. 2, 7) – Part 2
The Case at Thessalonica (2 Thess. 3)How to Treat those Disfellowshipped Does it Apply to Family? Can We Withdraw from the Withdrawn? Procedure for Withdrawal Objections to and Questions about WithdrawalSlide4
Saving the Erring, the Church, Our Families, and Ourselves
What is Discipline?“Church Discipline” to most means “withdrawing”Objective: to see that “discipline” is much broader & should be practiced far more often than withdrawing.Will see that discipline is absolutely necessary in all areas of lifeSlide5
Saving the Erring, the Church, Our Families, and Ourselves
What is Discipline?The Necessity of DisciplineSlide6
The Necessity of Discipline
When there is no penalty or consequence for a continual violation of law – there is no respect for the law or the lawgiver!Discipline is essential to all areas of life (where there is association by common purpose)HomeSchoolSocietySportsWorkMilitaryChurch
Must be laws, rules, or policy
Must be instruction (what is expected)
Must be penalty / consequenceSlide7
The Necessity of Discipline
When there is no penalty or consequence for a continual violation of law – there is no respect for the law or the lawgiver!Discipline is essential to all areas of life (where there is association by common purpose)Without discipline would be utter chaos (1 Cor. 14:33)No instructionNo trainingNo correctionNo improvingEveryone does what he desires (Judges 21:25)Slide8
The Necessity of Discipline
When there is no penalty or consequence for a continual violation of law – there is no respect for the law or the lawgiver!Discipline is essential to all areas of life (where there is association by common purpose)Without discipline would be utter chaos (1 Cor. 14:33)Discipline is necessary within selfMust have self discipline – self control (2 Pet. 1:6; 1 Cor. 9:26-27)If we discipline ourselves, little or no need for corrective church discipline!Slide9
The Necessity of Discipline
When there is no penalty or consequence for a continual violation of law – there is no respect for the law or the lawgiver!Discipline is essential to all areas of life (where there is association by common purpose)Without discipline would be utter chaos (1 Cor. 14:33)Discipline is necessary within selfThe fact that God tells us to discipline says it is necessaryIn the home (Prov. 13:24)Instruction & correction (2 Tim. 3:16-17)
Warn the unruly (1 Thess. 5:14)
Withdraw (1 Cor. 5:1-3; 2 Thess. 3:6-15)Slide10
Saving the Erring, the Church, Our Families, and Ourselves
What is Discipline?The Necessity of DisciplineThe Meaning of DisciplineSlide11
The Meaning of Discipline
Discipline is not limited to “withdrawing”Illustrated: “Teaching” is not limited to oral instructionIt includes withdrawing, but is much, much more!Slide12
The Meaning of Discipline
Discipline is not limited to “withdrawing”English word “discipline”:Noun: (AHD) Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement: was raised in the strictest discipline.a. Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order: military discipline. b. Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control: Dieting takes a lot of discipline. c. A state of order based on submission to rules and authority: a teacher who demanded discipline in the classroom. Punishment intended to correct or train: subjected to harsh discipline.A set of rules or methods, as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order.A branch of knowledge or teaching: the discipline of mathematics.Slide13
The Meaning of Discipline
Discipline is not limited to “withdrawing”English word “discipline”:Noun: (AHD)Verb: (AHD)To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control:The sergeant disciplined the recruits to become soldiers. See Synonyms at teach.To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience. See Synonyms at punish.To impose order on: needed to discipline their study habits.Summary:TrainingInstructionTeach
PunishRulesSlide14
The Meaning of Discipline
Discipline is not limited to “withdrawing”English word “discipline”:Word “discipline” as used in OT & NTOT: Prov. 3:11-12 – Chastening (discipline ESV) – has purpose to correctProv. 13:24 – disciplines (Strongs: reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint)Prov. 23:13 – Correction (discipline NASV) – same word for “instruction” (v. 12)Slide15
The Meaning of Discipline
Discipline is not limited to “withdrawing”English word “discipline”:Word “discipline” as used in OT & NTOT: NT:2 Tim. 3:16-17 – Instruction (fn: discipline)Same word: training (Eph. 6:4)Same word: chastening (Heb. 12:5,7,8,11)
Thayer: paideiaSlide16
1. the whole training and education of children (which relates to the cultivation of mind and morals, and employs for this purpose now commands and admonitions, now reproof and punishment): Eph. 6:4 [cf. W. 388 (363) note]; (in
Grk. writ. fr. Aeschyl. on, it includes also the care and training of the body.) [See esp. Trench, Syn. § xxxii.; cf. Jowett’s Plato, index s. v. Education].2. whatever in adults also cultivates the soul, esp. by correcting mistakes and curbing the passions; hencea. instruction which aims at the increase of virtue: 2 Tim. 3:16. Thayer, J. H. (1889). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: being Grimm’s Wilke's Clavis Novi
Testamenti (p. 473). New York: Harper & Brothers.
Παιδεία
(paideia)Slide17
The Meaning of Discipline
Discipline is not limited to “withdrawing”English word “discipline”:Word “discipline” as used in OT & NTOT: NT:2 Tim. 3:16-17 – Instruction (fn: discipline)1 Cor. 9:27 – discipline my body
This is self disciplineLiterally means to beat black and blue (Thayer, 646)
MEV: “bring and keep my body under subjection”
NRSV: “punish my body and enslave it”
NET: “I subdue my body and make it a slave”
NCV: “I treat my body hard and make it a slave”
LBP: “Like an athlete I punish my body, treating it roughly, training it to do what it should, not what it wants to do.”Slide18
The Meaning of Discipline
Discipline is not limited to “withdrawing”English word “discipline”:Word “discipline” as used in OT & NTMuch of what we do in the service of God = disciplineTeachingStudying WorshipEncouragementSlide19
Saving the Erring, the Church, Our Families, and Ourselves
What is Discipline?The Necessity of DisciplineThe Meaning of DisciplineTwo Kinds of DisciplineSlide20
Two Kinds of DisciplineInstructive - Teaching
Word is to be taught to order our livesDeut. 6:1-4John 6:44-45Titus 2:11-122 Tim. 3:16-171 Thess. 5:12Exhort one another (Heb. 3:12-13)Provoke one another to love and work (Heb. 10:24)This is preventative in nature!“To cut of the offender is good, to cure him is better, to prevent him from falling is best of all.”Slide21
Two Kinds of DisciplineInstructive – Teaching
CorrectiveNecessary in the home (Eph. 6:1-4; Heb. 12:5-12)Necessary in government / society (Rom. 13:1-7)Personal rebuke (Matt. 18:15-17)Warning the unruly (1 Thess. 5:14)Identifying the erring (Rom. 16:17)Withdrawing (Matt. 18:17; 1 Cor. 5; 2 Thess. 3)Slide22
Saving the Erring, the Church, Our Families, and Ourselves
What is Discipline?The Necessity of DisciplineThe Meaning of DisciplineTwo Kinds of DisciplineThe Means of DisciplineSlide23
The Means of DisciplinePublic Instruction
Public teaching (Acts 20:7, 20)Many sins are done in ignorance – public instruction informs and leads in right path.Many correct their ways because of what they learn from public instruction.Slide24
The Means of DisciplinePublic Instruction
Private Instruction & ExhortationPrivate teaching (Acts 20:20; 18:26; Gal. 6:1)Men, women and young people can do (2 Tim. 2:2)Individual teaching can meet specific needsSlide25
The Means of DisciplinePublic Instruction
Private Instruction & ExhortationPrivate Rebuke & AdmonitionPersonal offenses should be handled privately (Matt. 18:15-17; Luke 17:3)This is an effort to keep a private matter and private matterThis form of discipline (if handled correctly) may never be known by any others!Slide26
The Means of DisciplinePublic Instruction
Private Instruction & ExhortationPrivate Rebuke & AdmonitionPublic CensureTime for public rebuke (Gal. 2:11-14; 1 Tim. 5:20)Time when names need to be mentioned (1 Tim. 1:18-20; 2 Tim. 2:17-18)False teachers may need to be identified (Rom. 16:17)Slide27
The Means of DisciplinePublic Instruction
Private Instruction & ExhortationPrivate Rebuke & AdmonitionPublic CensureSocial OstracismSome are to be avoided (Rom. 16:17)From some should turn away (2 Tim.3:1-5)
Some are to be rejected (Titus 3:10)Some are not to be received (2 John 9-11)
Not to have company with withdrawn (1 Cor. 5:9-13; 2 Thess. 3:6-15)Slide28
Saving the Erring, the Church, Our Families, and Ourselves
What is Discipline?The Necessity of DisciplineThe Meaning of DisciplineTwo Kinds of Discipline
The Means of DisciplineGod’s Use of DisciplineSlide29
God’s Use of Discipline
Adam & Eve – driven from garden (Gen. 1:26-28; 2:8, 15-17; 3:22-14)Flood – wicked destroyed (Gen. 6:5-7; 7:21-23)Sodom & Gomorrah – burned for immorality (Gen. 19:24-29)Israel – in wilderness for lack of faith (Num. 14:28-35)Sabbath breaker
– die (Num. 15:35)
Moses
– keep from promised land (Num. 20:12)
Achan
– stoned for his sin (Josh. 7:21-26)
Prophet
– disobeyed & killed (1 Kings 13)
Ananias &
Sapphira – died for lying (Acts 5:1-11)Peter – rebuked for sin (Gal. 2:11-12)Alexander & Hymenaeus – delivered to Satan (1 Tim. 1:18-20)Slide30
Saving the Erring, the Church, Our Families, and Ourselves
What is Discipline?The Necessity of DisciplineThe Meaning of DisciplineTwo Kinds of DisciplineThe Means of DisciplineGod’s Use of Discipline