Calvin on Eldership and Discipline (2)

The Elders and Discipline The primary calling of the elders is discipline. Their work is to keep the church, insofar as that is possible here on earth, pure. It would do the churches well, especially those of the Reformed tradition, to study Calvin's teachings on this all-important matter. Schaff says that: Discipline is so important an element in Calvin's Church polity, that it … was the cause of his expulsion from Geneva, the basis of his flourishing French congregation at Strassburg, the...