[afsnco]

This is exactly why church discipline requires us to:
1. Go the person by ourselves and hopefully they’ll repent and everything stops there;
2. Take two or more with us so that every word may be established, and hopefully they’ll repent and everything stops there, or the two or more with us tells us we’re in the wrong and we repent, and everything stops there.
3. Take them before the church, and if they don’t repent, remove them.

If these “Bible steps” are followed, who was in the right and who was in the wrong will be thoroughly established.

[ravenwolf]

This is exactly why church discipline requires us to:

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I do not disagree with you, but Church is not the only place where forgiveness is essential.