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This article is part two in a series of articles on Church Discipline. You can see the previous article here. When the Scriptures instruct us to judge those in the church and purge the evil person (1 Cor 5:13), how should such an action take place? In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus gives the follow instructions, “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained…

This article is part one in a series of articles on Church Discipline. The entire chapter of 1 Corinthians 5 is devoted to the subject of purging evil people from the church. Paul, used by the Holy Spirit of God to give us God’s infallible word, elaborates on a previous letter to the church in Corinth by saying, “I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this…