I have done a four-part series on the topic of church discipline in earlier posts, so I won’t be visiting old ground here. To summarise: As a church we follow the Matthew 18:15–17 principles for church discipline at our church. When we talk of church discipline we mean the daily ‘one anothering’ of church member […]
In my 14 years of pastoral ministry, I have stumbled through cases of bestiality, incest, rape, complicated ‘family’ structures, multiple addictions, chronic mental illnesses, murder, and suicide. It has been a struggle trying to work through the mess of sinful humanity in a way that is biblically faithful—both to the injured party, their loved ones, […]