1. Reasons for

• purify church - 1 Cor. 5:6-7

• save erring brother - 1 Cor. 5:5

• NOTE: When it is suggested that such discipline doesn't work, it usually only means #2 - the erring brother didn't repent. What is always forgotten in such cases is that the church was purified - it DID work.

2. Upon Whom

• disorderly - 2 Thess. 3:6

• wicked - 1 Cor. 5:11-13

• busybodies - 2 Thess. 3:11

• Those obeying not the word, 1 Tim. 6:3-6; 2 Thess. 3:14; 2 Jn. 9-10; Romans 16:17

• those that cause division - Romans 16:17

• Factious person - Titus 3:10-11

3. Scriptural course of Action

• pray for them - 1 John 5:16

• go see (individually) Matt. 18:15-17

• Try to convert - James 5:19-20

• Try to restore - Gal. 6:1f

• admonish them - 1 Thess. 5:14

• take two with you if above fails - Matt. 18:15

• then - tell church - Matt. 18:15f

• Withdraw from them if NOT change 2 Thess. 3:6; 1Cor. 5:4,5,13; 2 John 10; 2 Thess. 3:14ff

• Whole church should support such action - Matt. 18:17; 1 Cor. 5:9-12