Church Discipline

How does it happen? A path all to often followed over an extended period of time might look something like this. The nefarious process begins with a subtle loss of desire for holiness, then an equally slight emphasis on something else that is spiritual, which seems to balance the scales from the injustice of selectively…

This book has been unavailable for a few months as I went through the process of both updating it and changing publishers. It is now available from WestBow publisher. You may purchase it as WestBow, Amazon or Trinity Baptist Church among other internet book stores.

Sometimes members of our church are unclear concerning how to relate to a person who has been removed from the membership of Trinity Baptist Church through formal church discipline. This concern usually arises out of a desire to help the person who was disciplined and yet not be in violation of the Scripture. However, the…

We recently had to bring three of our members before the church for church discipline. This is always a sad time. As a matter of fact, one of the saddest times in the life of a church is when someone who professes to be a follower of Christ willfully rejects following the Scripture and has…