Tag: church discipline
The Church Discipline: Is It a Burden or Blessing?
If we forget what our church manuals are for, we tend to institutionalize them, and they become calcified documents that are more of our judge than a tool for discipleship.
How to Talk About Church Discipline in a Wounded World
The Methodist theologian William Burt Pope, following the Protestant tradition, identified church discipline as one of three marks of a true church (along with...
Bearing One Another’s Burdens: Towards Restorative Covenant Communities
“Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2). “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it...
What is Binding and Loosing in Matthew 18:18?
Question: What is the binding and loosing in Matthew 18:18?
Matthew 18:18 says, "Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be...