권징(Church Discipline)의 교회론적 의의 = Significance of Church Discipline in the Doctrine of the Church

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Today we see the church has fallen away from the pure preaching of the word of God and there is no purity in the church as church discipline is not exercised. When you exercise church discipline you could be considered as a false teacher, like a cult leader. Many would say it is important to love the church members and church discipline will contradict with the great commandment of God`s love. However, love and truth cannot be separated. One of the greatest achievements of the Reformation was the recovery of the Gospel. The recovery of the gospel included many things the church had lost for long time. It restored, first of all, the doctrine of justification that man is justified by faith only. It also included the recovery of the highest authority of the Bible on the faith and the life of the believers, the pure preaching of the gospel, and the sacraments which had been grossly abused by the Roman Catholic Church till the Reformation. But these were not all that had been achieved by the Reformation, and particularly by John Calvin. By the time of the Reformation church discipline was corrupted and abused as seriously as sacraments. The restoration of church discipline to its rightful use and appreciation in the church was thus Calvin`s main concern when he began his ministry in Geneva. He was committed to the recovery of church discipline and his efforts on behalf of it continued to 1555 when the magistrates finally conceded to the church council the right of excommunication. Calvin acknowledged that the visible church could never be perfect. Christ so loved the Church that by dying for her she would be sanctified by the washing of the water with the word and be presented to Him blameless, holy and blemish(Ephesians 5:25-27). However in the visible church the wheat always exists with the chaff. Thus, until the return of Christ, and the purification of the bride, there is a need for church discipline. Church discipline is necessitated in Calvin`s ecclesiology. This paper aims at examining the interrelationship between Calvin`s ecclesiology and church discipline. Five aspects, considered to be necessary to fulfil this aim, are examined. Church discipline: its necessity; church discipline: its usefulness (function); church discipline: its purpose; church discipline: its limits; and church discipline: its subject.

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