Understanding Church Discipline (4)

Barrett L. Gritters is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Byron Center, Michigan. Love is the ingredient required in all church discipline. Church discipline must be loving church discipline. Whether it be discipline of sins that are public, sins known only by the consistory, or sins dealt with on a private basis, all discipline must be done out of true love for the sinner. And that love must be shown to the sinner. Parents who discipline children without a generous portion of love...