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• Discipline is a surprising key to church growth.

• It yields the power of holiness.
• It shows the priority of God's Word.
• It results in purity.

• Note two biblical examples.
• Discipline is not an "elective."
• Discipline transformed the early church in Corinth.

• Paul's utmost concern was sin among believers.
• Paul was humiliated by the sins of the church he'd planted.
• Christ calls the sinful church to repent.
• If Paul finds sin in the church, he "will not spare anyone".
• A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

• Doctrinal error should be disciplined.
• Sins that destroy the unity of the church should be disciplined.
• Sins that destroy the purity of the church should be disciplined.

• It starts in the congregation.
• Confront the sinner:
  - In private
  - With one or two others
  - Before the church
• Literally name the person and his sin from the pulpit to the congregation.
• If the sinner doesn't repent, put him out of the church till he does repent.

• "Church discipline . . . aids Christians in holy living. . . . The threat of public censure is a restraint. . . . Pastors, you have to oversee this duty in your church if you want a holy church."