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What is Church discipline?
BCO 27-1
Discipline is the exercise of authority given the church by the Lord Jesus Christ to instruct and guide its members and to promote its purity and welfare. The term has two senses:
a. the one referring to the whole government, inspection, training, guardianship and control which
the church maintains over its members, its officers and its courts.
b. The other a restricted and technical sense, signifying judicial process.

Chapell suggests that the church should follow a Family model of discipline more than a judicial
model-
What is the goal of church discipline?
BCO 27-3
-In its proper usage discipline maintains:
a. the glory of God,
b. The purity of his Church,
c. The keeping and reclaiming of disobedient sinners.

Discipline is for the purpose of godliness (1Tim 4: 7); therefore, it demands a self-examination under Scripture.

Its ends, so far as it involves judicial action, are the rebuke of offenses, the removal of scandal, the vindication of the honor of Christ, the promotion of the purity and general edification of the Church, and the spiritual good of offenders themselves.
What are the proper steps of church discipline?
BCO 27-5
Properly disciplinary principles are set forth in the Scriptures and must be followed. They are:
a. Instruction in the Word;
b. Individual's responsibility to admonish one another (Matthew 18: 15, Galatians 6:1);
c. If the admonition is rejected, then the calling of one or more witnesses (Matthew 18:16);
d. If rejection persists, then the Church must act through her court unto admonition, suspension,
excommunication and deposition (See BCO 29 and 30 for further explanation).

Steps (a) through (d) must be followed in proper order for the exercise of discipline
Who Is Primarily Responsible For Disciplining Non-Communing Members?
BCO 28-1
Primarily their parents.
List and Define Church Censures
BCO 30
Admonition: Formal reproof of an offender

Suspension from sacraments: the temporary exclusion from those ordinances (indefinite). Regarding office, suspension of sacraments always means suspension from office... but not the other way around.

Suspension from office: exclusion of a church officer from his office (definite or indefinite duration).

Excommunication: excision of an offender from the communion of the church.

Deposition-degradation of an officer from office (with/without other censure).