A Biblical Theology of Church Discipline

This book discusses strategies for meaningful discipline within church communities.Drawing from personal and academic experience, Charlie Ray III turns to the New and Old Testament to reexamine what the Bible says about church discipline.Ray contends that a study of the Old Testament, and specifically Old Testament law, clarifies both the grounds for and the process of church discipline for the church today.In doing so, this book illuminates how New Testament authors repeatedly appeal to the Old Testament Law both for the foundational principles of church discipline as well as the process of church discipline.By embarking on a study of biblical theology of church discipline, extending from capital punishment in the Old Testament through excommunication in the New Testament, Ray formulates a rigorous biblical theology of church discipline.