Equipping University

There is a great need for churches to realize the value of corrective church discipline for the health and vitality of the church. Churches must realize that corrective church discipline on earth is important because it is a small act of judgment that dimly points to God's final judgment in heaven. However, that relatively small act is performed with the hope that the sinning church member will come to repentance before God's final judgment ever arrives. This decline of church discipline is perhaps the most visible sign of the failure of the contemporary church, which is no longer concerned with purity of confession or lifestyle, but sees itself almost entirely as a voluntary association of autonomous members with minimal moral accountability to God or each other. Without a recovery of biblical church discipline, the church will continue its downward slide. This is not the way it is supposed to be. The people of God are depicted throughout the Bible as people of purity. As the chosen people of a holy God,