Erasure of Baptized Members

Introduction to the Nature of the Problem The question with which we deal in this presentation is that which concerns the proper exercise of discipline on the part of the church toward those baptized members who have not yet made public profession of faith but who walk in open, unconfessed, and impenitent sin. The Protestant Reformed Churches, as well as other Reformed churches, have the practice of working with such members by means of admonitions and warnings before finally erasing them as...