NEGATIVE: RESOLVED That Discipline of Members that Belong to Worldly Organization’s should be Left to the Ministry of the Word

When the undersigned is requested to refute the proposition that the discipline of members belonging to worldly organizations should be left to the ministry of the Word, and, by implication, maintain that Christian discipline must be applied to these members, it is, of course, not his task to prove the necessity of Christian discipline. This is established among us, according to Scripture and Confession. If in many churches the exercise of Christian discipline is sadly neglected or even...