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Christ
sets forth His 'rules' for discipline in Matthew 18: 15-17.
Now if your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault,
between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have won your brother.
But if he will not hear you, take one or two more with you, so that
by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be confirmed.
But if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church and if he
refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as the Gentile
and the tax-collector." " We may say of a Christian church, that
it is well-disciplined, not when perpetually engaged in efforts
to reclaim offenders, but when there are few offenders to be reclaimed.
Like military and family discipline, the church must include a formative,
as well as a corrective, or reformative process." Discipline is
one of the greatest needs of the Church today.
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