Excommunication

Excommunication is the formal removal of an unrepentant member from the worshipping community, a discipline rooted in the Mosaic congregation's "cutting off" of offenders and continued in the church's authority to put away those who persist in sin. Scripture treats it as a redemptive act of the assembly's government, aimed at protecting the community and recovering the offender.

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