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NASB | 2 Corinthians 10:6 and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 10:6 being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete. |
Bible Question: How do we punish disobedience? Who is qualified to do this? |
Bible Answer: 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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