Church Discipline in the Digital Age

Church discipline happens in and to a body. Ordinarily, it’s organic and self-reparative, but sometimes robust interventive processes need to be architected to support the body’s ability to repair itself. Sometimes the pain of healing and facilitating the healing exceeds the pain of the injury. For this reason, many understand it to be the hardest part of church leadership. This is why Paul had to write the 1 Corinthians letter—the church in Corinth wasn’t doing the work required to promote the holiness of the church–perhaps the leaders were pain-avoidant.