Church Discipline, Part 5

The language Christ used here evokes the thought of love, concern, and care when it comes to the struggling Christian. Again church discipline is not the result of a religiously arrogant people kicking someone out of their club. Rather, it is the actions of tough love which the world endorses in the case of an intervention on the part of a family member struggling with alcohol. The goal is not to remove the loved one from one's life, but to stop them in their descent to the grave!