Is It Loving to Practice Church Discipline? (Church Questions)

by Jonathan Leeman

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2020

Overview

Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. Church Questions is a series by 9Marks that seeks to provide Christians with sound and accessible biblical teaching by answering common questions about church life. Each booklet offers biblical answers and practical applications with the goal of nurturing healthy church practice and commitment. In this concise booklet, Jonathan Leeman presents succinct biblical answers to various questions posited about the nature and application of church discipline, conveying that Scripture presents church discipline as both loving and necessary for yielding life, health, holiness, and growth in the local church body.

Product Details

• Title: Is It Loving to Practice Church Discipline?
• Author: Jonathan Leeman
• Series: 9Marks: Church Questions
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 56
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Church discipline › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9781433570254, 9781433570285, 9781433570278, 1433570254, 1433570289, 1433570270
• Resource ID: LLS:ISITLVCHRCHDSCPLN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-26T17:05:12Z

About Jonathan Leeman

Jonathan Leeman is the editorial director of 9Marks, which involves him in editing the 9Marks series of books as well as the 9Marks Journal. He has written a number of books on the church, including Reverberation, and he teaches theology at several seminaries. Jonathan lives with his wife and four daughters in a suburb of Washington, DC and serves as an elder at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington. You can learn more about him and his writing at www.9Marks.org.