Healing the wounded : the costly love of church discipline

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I. The problem -- What is church discipline? -- Barriers to church discipline -- Jesus and power -- II. The goals of corrective church discipline -- The ministry of reconciliation -- The holy, spotless bride -- Restoring the fallen -- Discipline that sets free -- The Matthew passage -- The Corinthian passage -- III. Practical considerations -- The three steps reconsidered -- Joe's story -- The return of the prodigal -- Repentance -- Sins that don't go away -- Confessing sin -- When leaders go wrong -- An approach to change -- Appendix: "Binding and loosing" / John Howard Yoder.