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Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives \u2013Historic Baptist Ecclessiology – Part Three<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IF GOD’S WORD IS TRUE, THE CHURCH THAT JESUS STARTED STILL STANDS–HAS ENDURED!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Church Discipline<\/p>\n\n\n\n “If he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.” (Matt. 18:17, 18, AV, with corrected tenses of verbs in verse 18.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n This text suggests three simple questions that believers in an “invisible” church might try to answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n a. How can a wronged brother tell his grievance to an “invisible” church?<\/p>\n\n\n\n b. How can an “invisible” church decide an issue, make known its judgment to a trespassing brother, or execute that judgment “if he neglect to hear”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n c. Is not the authority to “bind and loose,” whatever this means, in verse 18 given to the same church that is in view in verse 17?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Obviously the reference here is to an organized assembly; and obviously such organized assemblies must always have existed from that time to this in order that faithful followers of Jesus might obey His instructions here given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thomas E. Kresal from: Sermon: \u201cTen Bible Proofs Of Baptist Perpetuity\u201d by Rosco Brong<\/p>\n\n\n\n http:\/\/baptisthistoryhomepage.com\/brong.sermon.bapt.perpet.\u2026<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n