Responsibility in Matters of Church Discipline

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By Kelvin C. (at Jurong CoC, on Oct 30, 2024 Wednesday) 


  1. Individual - self discipline 
    1. 1 Cor 9:27 my body into subjection; preach to others; myself castaway
    2. 1 Tim 4:16 take heed to thyself
    3. Heb 3:12-13 take heed, brethren; lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief; exhort one another daily
    4. Js 1:26 Christians’ tongue
    5. 2 Pe 3:17-18 beware; led away with error; fall from steadfastness; grow in grace and the knowledge of Lord
    6. Mt 7:13-14 enter into the heaven; strait gate; narrow is the way

  1. Individual - towards one another
    1. Sinful condition
      1. 1 Cor 13:6 rejoice in the truth
      2. Rom 1:32 the judgment of God; worthy of death; do the same and have pleasure in them that do them
    2. Examples
      1. 1 Sam 15:35, 20, 22 Samuel mourned for Saul; obey is better than sacrifice
      2. Deu 9:25-26 Moses fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights for the people
      3. Rom 9:1-3 Paul has great heaviness and continual sorrow for brethren
    3. Biblical command
      1. Gal 6:1-2 restore in the spirit of meekness; bear one another’s burdens 
      2. Js 5:19-20 save a soul… hide a multitude of sins
      3. Jude 1:22-23 have compassion, making a difference… pulling them out of fire 
      4. Lk 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
    4. Attitudes
      1. Loves the one who rebukes him.
        1. Pro 9:8-9 teach a just man… increase in learning
      2. Loves his soul.
        1. Pro 15:32 hear reproof get understanding
      3. Humbles himself towards correction.
        1. Psa 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
      4. Disrespects / scorns the rebuke given.
        1. Pro 23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
      5. Refuses rebuke, wanders and be destroyed.
        1. Pro 10:17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
        2. Pro 13:13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
      6. Prefers to listen to what they want to hear.
        1. 2 Tim 4:3-4 sound doctrine; itching ears; fables
  2. Elders’ responsibility
    1. Acts 20:28 feed
    2. Heb 13:17 give account
      1. Not only spiritual but also some physical issues
  3. Collective responsibility of the church 
    1. Mat 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
    2. Rom 16:17-18 mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them… serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly
    3. 2 The 3:14-15 obey not…admonish him as a brother
    4. 1 Cor 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
    5. Ezk 3:16-21 watch man unto the house of Israel…thine hand…warn…also thou has delivered thy soul
    6. Acts 20:26-27 declare all the counsel of God


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