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1 | Disobedience avenged? | 2 Cor 10:6 | mark d seyler | 166904 | ||
How do we punish disobedience? Who is qualified to do this? | ||||||
2 | Disobedience avenged? | 2 Cor 10:6 | DocTrinsograce | 166906 | ||
Dear Brother Mark, This is what is commonly called "church discipline." In my own tradition it is carried out by faithful ministers of the Gospel (elders) with the "suffrage of the church." They do this by using three general mechanisms in the following order of severity: 1. individual call to repentance 2. public censure 3. excommunication. (Number 1 is what we call these days "personal counselling.") Drawing from various Scripture passages, "By Christ's appointment, any person who has been qualified and given the necessary gifts by the Holy Spirit for the work of bishop or elder in a church, must be chosen and called to that office by the common suffrage of the church itself. He must be solemnly set apart by fasting and prayer, with the laying on of the hands of the existing eldership, if there be such." (1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, chapter 26, paragraph 9) Historic Baptists are generally somewhat mistrustful of human organizations vested with greater authority than the local congregation. Again, this is from the perspective of my own tradition. However, I believe that it is well and properly derived from the explicit instruction of the Word. In Him, Doc |
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3 | Disobedience avenged? | 2 Cor 10:6 | mark d seyler | 166912 | ||
Hi Doc, Thank you, that makes good sense, especially as Paul surrounded this passage with statements of his leadership role. I have always taken such a personal application to the immediately preceding verses that as I read this the other day, I realized that I did not know how it fit in. God bless! Love in Christ, Mark |
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4 | Disobedience avenged? | 2 Cor 10:6 | DocTrinsograce | 166913 | ||
Dear Brother Mark, As the church purifies itself, the objective is always restoration. We cooperate by submitting to those in spiritual authority over us and by careful introspection, confession, and repentance. Again, from the Baptist tradition, pargraphs 12 and 13 of the LBCF actually state, "As all believers are bound to join themselves to particular churches, when and where they have opportunity so to do; so all that are admitted unto the privileges of a church, are also under the censures and government thereof, according to the rule of Christ." and "No church members, upon any offence taken by them, having performed their duty required of them towards the person they are offended at, ought to disturb any church-order, or absent themselves from the assemblies of the church, or administration of any ordinances, upon the account of such offence at any of their fellow members, but to wait upon Christ, in the further proceeding of the church." We can "disconnect" the whole process when we bop off to another church just to avoid dealing with sin. Sorry... don't mean to go on and on. :-) In Him, Doc |
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