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Church Discipline — A Meditation on Matthew 18:15-20

September 4, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

Church Discipline

This Sunday the Gospel text is Matthew 18:15-20, a classic text in discussions of church discipline, and the first of two weeks the Revised Common Lectionary will spend in Matthew 18.  Though I seem constitutionally incapable of writing a genuinely short meditation, I’ll try to confine myself to a few observations on this text, especially […]

Filed Under: Bible, Monday Meditation Tagged With: 14th Sunday after Pentecost, church discipline, Proper 18(23), RCL Year A

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