ONE: Discipleship and Discipline
ONE: Discipleship and Discipline
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 5:1-13, Matthew 18:15-17
In 1 Corinthians 5, the apostle Paul confronts a shocking case of sexual immorality that the Corinthian church had tolerated and even become proud of. The passage reminds us that sin distorts God’s design, destroys lives, and spreads like yeast through the entire church family. Rather than ignoring or celebrating sin, Paul calls the church to respond with broken-hearted sorrow, challenges them to deal with it head on, and seek the ultimate restoration of this man to God and the church family by disfellowshipping him. The ultimate goal of loving discipline is always the restoration of the sinner as well as the purity of the church body.
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