Do the words ‘love’ and ‘church discipline’ sound like an oxymoron?
It’s true, church discipline can be unloving. Yet if your church is a loving church, it will practice church discipline.
Michael’s story
My church loved Michael through church discipline. Maybe it didn’t feel that way at the time. Had you been sitting there, watching the decision to remove Michael from membership, you might have initially wondered if the act was loving.
