While most U.S. Protestant churches have policies in place to address significant misbehavior by members, formalized church ...

A Latter-day Saint law professor is repulsed by Sen. Mike Lee's online behavior but makes his case for why he doesn't support church discipline against the Utah senator.

The recent church discipline case gone wrong at The Village Church has taken the Christian world by storm. While church leaders issued a public apology, the situation that led to the apology is ...

But church discipline critics claim that abuse is the rule rather than the exception, and they argue the Bible doesn’t teach church discipline as it is commonly practiced.

Secondly, discipline is used to protect the rest of the body. One church I was helping had a deacon involved in some immoral behavior. Nothing was done, people looked the other way because they ...

2. Edward T. Hiscox Church Manual. 3. The Unger’s Bible Dictionary. The Chapel Library: (Discipline is training that corrects, molds, or perfects; a system of rules governing conduct.) ...

The New Testament makes clear that the exercise of church discipline is for those “who are spiritual” (Gal. 6:1), and that discipline is to be carried out in a spirit of “meekness.” ...

Whatever happened to congregational discipline? Few congregations do it anymore. Why? Gregory Wills’ dissertation on why it fell out of favor in the 1800s and 1900s is fascinating (Democratic ...