Healing the wounded : the costly love of church discipline - White, John, 1924-2002.; Blue, Ken, 1945- (Downers Grove, Ill. : Intervarsity Press, 1985)
I. The problem -- What is church discipline? -- Barriers to church discipline -- Jesus and power -- II. The goals of corrective church discipline -- The ministry of reconciliation -- The holy, spotless bride -- Restoring the fallen -- Discipline that sets free -- The Matthew passage -- The Corinthian passage -- III. Practical considerations -- The three steps reconsidered -- Joe's story -- The return of the prodigal -- Repentance -- Sins that don't go away -- Confessing sin -- When leaders go wrong -- An approach to change -- Appendix: 'Binding and loosing' / John Howard Yoder.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238).
Keywords: Church discipline