Dr. DeMoor, are you implying that the admonition and correction of officebearers covered by Articles 82-84 is the exclusive prerogative of local councils? If correction can only be initiated within a local church, what is the function of broader assemblies? Where does our Church Order grant this power locally and restrict it broadly? For discipline of members, yes, but for special discipline, are not officebearers accountable to one another? Is that not the whole point of classis and synod?
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Dr. DeMoor, are you implying that the admonition and correction of officebearers covered by Articles 82-84 is the exclusive prerogative of local councils? If correction can only be initiated within a local church, what is the function of broader assemblies? Where does our Church Order grant this power locally and restrict it broadly? For discipline of members, yes, but for special discipline, are not officebearers accountable to one another? Is that not the whole point of classis and synod?