Church Discipline
What the Church Can and Should Bring to the #MeToo Movement
By Whitney Woollard | 9Marks Journal: Church Life: Our True Political Witness | 04.17.2018The world doesn’t have the tools to offer the kind of redemption the #MeToo movement calls for. But thankfully, the church does.
Putting People Before Policies in Church Discipline
By Nate Pickowicz | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018In recent years, the number of churches committed to exercising biblical church discipline seems to be increasing.
Why Churches Should Excommunicate Longstanding Non-Attenders
By Alex Duke | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018I’ve never met a growing and mature Christian who doesn’t regularly attend a gospel-preaching church.
Why Calvin Thought Church Discipline is Essential to the Health of the Church
By Matthew Tuininga | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018Why did John Calvin believe church discipline to be essential to the health of the church?
Church Discipline Starts with You
By Whitney Woollard | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018A loving church will be a disciplining church—and the burden of that discipline rests primarily us “ordinary Christians” who make up the discipleship community.
A Testimony of Restoration
By John Jones | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018To this day, I don’t know if I was a backslidden convert or if I was a deceived non-Christian. Either way, church discipline served to expose my hypocrisy.
A Step-by-Step Primer for Church Discipline
By Geoff Chang | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018Church discipline would be easier if the church wasn’t made up of people. But Jesus didn’t come for buildings or institutions or events. He came to save a people for himself, sinners like you and me.
Teaching Church Discipline in a Church Plant
By John Onwuchekwa | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018Sin doesn’t ruin churches. Unconfessed and unaddressed sin does.
Should You Excommunicate Someone Who Joins an “Open & Affirming” Congregation?
By Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018Should churches excommunicate someone who joins an “open and affirming” congregation?
Good and Bad Excuses Not to Practice Church Discipline
By Brad Wheeler | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018What are some good and bad excuses not to practice church discipline?
A Historical Survey of Church Discipline
By Jeremy Kimble | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline: Medicine for the Body | 01.09.2018Throughout church history the practice of church discipline has been largely affirmed, though at certain periods, only sporadically applied.
Book Review: 40 Questions about Membership & Discipline, by Jeremy Kimble
Review by Joshua Fang | 12.07.2017If Western Christians think church membership and discipline are strange and alien ideas, then it’s totally new for churches in China.
Mailbag #68: Does a Church’s Maturity Affect Church Discipline Approach? . . . Should We Bring into Membership a Family Who Doesn’t Speak Our Language?
By Jonathan Leeman | 11.10.2017— Should a congregation’s age, spiritual maturity, and experience of church discipline play into a “muddy” church discipline decision? — How should we maintain a robust membership process while taking into account a new family’s language barrier?
Mailbag #67: What Should Members Vote On (And How) . . . Responding to Members’ Foolish Social Media Posts
By Jonathan Leeman | 11.03.2017— What are considered “important matters” for members to vote on—and how do you practically carry out the voting process? — How should I respond to a church member’s foolish use of social media?
4 Reasons Churches Don’t Practice Church Discipline
By Jeremy Kimble | 11.02.2017Despite what some people think, church discipline isn’t an unloving, invasive act, perpetrated by wicked people.
