The Elders and Censura Morum

Article 81 of The Church Order of the Protestant Reformed Churches (hereafter, the Church Order) requires that, "The ministers of the Word, elders, and deacons shall before the celebration of the Lord's Supper exercise Christian censure among themselves, and in a friendly spirit admonish one another with regard to the discharge of their office." Officebearers in the churches know this to be the practice of censura morum. In some Reformed churches the practice is called censura fraterna. This...