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Church discipline is the practice of church members calling upon an individual within the Church to repent for their sins. [citation needed] Church discipline is performed when one has sinned or gone against the rules of the church. [citation needed] Church discipline is practiced with the intent to make the offender repent and be reconciled to ...
The Book of Discipline constitutes the law and doctrine of the United Methodist Church. [1] It follows similar works for its predecessor denominations. It was originally published in 1784, in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been published every four years thereafter following the meeting of the General Conference, which passes legislation that is included in the Book of Discipline.
Title page, "A Platform of Church Discipline" The Cambridge Platform is a statement of congregational church government for the churches of colonial New England.It was written in 1648 in response to Presbyterian criticism and served as the religious constitution of Massachusetts until 1780. [1]
The Book of Order is a governing document of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), abbreviated as PC(USA). It is divided into four parts: The Foundations of Presbyterian Polity, Form of Government, Directory for Worship, and Rules of Discipline. The Book of Order is designated "Part 2" of the PC(USA) Constitution. "Part 1" is the Book of Confessions.
A Book of Discipline (or in its shortened form Discipline) [1] is a book detailing the beliefs, standards, doctrines, canon law, and polity of a particular Christian denomination. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are often re-written by the governing body of the church concerned due to changes in society and in the denomination itself. [ 4 ]
The Book of Discipline refers to two works regulative of ecclesiastical order in the Church of Scotland, known as The First Book of Discipline (1560) and The Second Book of Discipline (1578), drawn up and printed in the Scottish Reformation. The first was drafted by a committee of "six Johns", including leading reformer John Knox.
The resulting Twenty-five Articles were adopted at the Christmas Conference of 1784, [3] and are found in the Books of Discipline of Methodist Churches, such as Chapter I of the Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and paragraph 103 of the United Methodist Church Book of Discipline. [4]
A discipline is a small scourge (whip) used as an instrument of penance by certain members of some Christian denominations (including Roman Catholics, Anglicans, [1] among others) [2] in the spiritual discipline known as mortification of the flesh.