2013MAY19PM Q&A-36

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2013MAR31PM Q&A-34

What is Church Discipline in Matthew 18?
Step 1: v. 15 “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.

Step 2: v. 16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’

Step 3: v. 17a And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church.

Step 4: v. 17b But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
The actual wording:

• Step 1: v. 15 Since we all sin, we are all to confess and forsake each sin. If we get swept away in any sin, fellow believers are to personally confront us as often as needed v. 22.
• Step 2: v. 16 If a believer continues, Christ said, take witnesses and together seek for them to repent; and if they will not repent and seek Biblical resolution, then the leaders of the church must follow the next stage of seeking their restoration to confessing and forsaking sin.
• Step 3: v. 17a The leaders are to announce to the church that the member of Christ's Body is persisting in unforsaken sin, and anyone who knows them is exhorted to go and pursue them, asking them to repent. This period lasts one month while the church prays and seeks them out. If nothing changes, the church gathers to institute the final stage.
• Step 4: v. 17b In humility and grief over the person's unforsaken sin, the member of the Body of Christ is put out of the fellowship of the church until they repent and can be restored.

2013MAR17PM Q&A-33

What is the Present Role of Angels in the Lives of Believers and Unbelievers Living on Earth?

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