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The Key of Church Discipline
When we hear the word “discipline,” we tend to think of giving consequences to a child when he disobeys. However, this is not the case when it comes to church discipline. While it shares the element of correction, it is not consequences for faults but restorative of the individual and protective of the church.
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The Divine Institution of the Church
In 1689, after the Act of Toleration, the same year the baptized churches in London first assembled to hold communion together and to adopt the 1689 Second London Confession of Faith as the doctrinal and practical standard of their communion, the influential Congregational minister Isaac Chauncy lamented the ignorance of both officers and people with regard to the church’s divinely instituted order, government, and discipline.
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