The Federation > Church Order > v. Christian Discipline

• Article 66. Nature and Purpose

  Since church discipline is of a spiritual nature and, as one of the keys of the kingdom of heaven, has...

• Article 67. Consistory Involvement

  The consistory shall not deal with any matter pertaining to purity of doctrine or piety of life that is reported...

• Article 68. Excommunication

  Anyone who obstinately rejects the admonition by the consistory or who has committed a public sin shall be suspended from...

• Article 69. Repentance

  When someone repents of a public sin or of a sin which had to be reported to the consistory, the...

• Article 70. Readmission

  When someone who has been excommunicated repents and desires to be again received into the communion of the church, the...

• Article 71. Suspension and Deposition of Office-bearers

  When ministers, elders, or deacons have committed a public or otherwise gross sin, or refuse to heed the admonitions by...

• Article 72. Serious and Gross Sins on the Part of Office-bearers

  As serious and gross sins which are grounds for the suspension or deposition of office-bearers the following are to be...

• Article 73. Christian Censure

  The ministers, elders, and deacons shall mutually exercise Christian censure and shall exhort and kindly admonish one another with regard...

• Article 74. No Lording It Over Others

  No church shall in any way lord it over other churches, no office-bearer over other office-bearers....

• Article 75. Property of the Churches

  All property, both real and personal, which belongs to the churches comprised respectively in classes, regional synods, and general synods...

• Article 76. Observance and Revision of the Church Order

  These articles, which regard the lawful order of the church, have been adopted with common accord. If the interest of...

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• v. Christian Discipline