The form of Excommunication (3)

Exhortation and Prayer The congregation which instrumentally enacts the excommunication of the impenitent brother, is no better or more worthy than he who is excommunicated. Each member of the church, as they witness the excommunication, must feel in their hearts that apart from the grace of God this is also their just portion. None of us deserves a place in God's Kingdom. It is only the grace of God that continually leads us to repentance that gives us that place and preserves us in it....