Ecclesiastical corrective discipline

Ecclesiastical Corrective Discipline is a declining aspect of the Christian life within today's evangelical church. This topic offers a response that seeks to be a help for the leadership of those congregations that, in a pastoral manner, seek the supervision and restoration of members who have fallen into deep and entrenched sin.

This book explores the decline of corrective discipline in the Church of Christ among evangelical congregations; however, it offers a specific analysis with a focus on the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. The findings and conclusions of the author's research will be helpful not only to Presbyterian congregations, but also to Baptist churches, independent churches, and the evangelical people in general.

The author states that Corrective Discipline can be freshly appreciated in terms of the importance of the Third Mark of a biblical Church. This topic is key, even more so when there is a great thirst for sound doctrine and for establishing biblical churches in Latin America and other parts of the world. For this, the Third Mark of the church must recover its importance and place in ecclesiological practice, just as expository preaching and the celebration of the sacraments have done. This can be appreciated by conducting a careful biblical study that is coupled with Reformed teaching reflected in the writings of men like John Calvin and John Knox, in addition to other doctrinal standards of the Protestant Reformation, such as The Westminster Confession of Faith.