True Church Discipline with guest Pastor Jeff Noblit

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Host:Vic Eliason
Guest:Jeff Noblit

Who ever heard of a disciplined church? After all, isn't church today supposed to be a "do your own thing" type of activity where each person seeks a church that features a likeable pastor preaching their favorite theology and above all, that allows everyone to seek their own "purpose".

That's not the biblical model for a disciplined church as you'll discover when you listen to this edition of Crosstalk that features Pastor Jeff Noblit of First Baptist Church of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Pastor Noblit 's church features an activity that they call a True Church Conference. It's theme is--Church Discipline: The Missing Key to True Church Growth.

The True Church Conference idea began last year by request from people outside of his church wanting to know how they do what they do in terms of striving to be a true, biblically healthy church. This means striving to be true as opposed to being popular or successful in the secular sense. Church discipline was chosen as the topic in order to address the biblical truth and practices that are being neglected or abandoned by some churches today.

Pastor Noblit notes that discipline is key because growth is the result of purity. Without purity, where there is known, willful, outward and unrepentant sin, the sanctity of the church is lost and you lose the power of the Holy Spirit. When churches are not striving for purity and holiness, leaving out accountability and discipline, growth ends up being manufactured in the power of the flesh.

True, there is a wide gamut of churches, some that seem to have almost no discipline, while still others can seem controlling. In response to this, Pastor Noblit believes that church discipline must be administered with humility and a compassion for the glory of God and the good of the individual..

The True Church Conference will include David Miller who will preach on Justification, Sanctification and Glorification; Paul Washer will preach on reducing the need for discipline; Pastor Noblit will preach on purity, power and church growth; Dr. Jay Adams will speak via satellite on corrective discipline in the local church; Paul Washer will return to preach on church discipline and world missions; and Pastor Noblit closes it out with a session on church discipline, church growth and the glory of God.

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[valambiguous]

Teaching and preaching the simple gospel in a nutshell, IS the power of God unto salvation and THAT being done to everyone. The Holy Spirit is the rod and staff that will chastise, as well as comfort believers. It is God who builds His Church on the Rock, who is Jesus Christ alone. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The gospel is our only discipline, and then Church government will follow.

[PrinceJohn757]

Praise the Lord for true servants of Christ who have "the sentence of death" in them for the sake upholding the Gospel in love, purity and truth. Excellent post.

[LaneCh]

I recommend the sermon that Paul Washer gave last earlier tonight at the Sermonindex Revival Conference (10.22.08). He doesn't just touch on this subject; he delved into it.  You can find the link to it at my site (not the Youtube one, but my blog).

[mrspogadaeus]

Also true... but there was only room for 500 characters or less in the comment box, so I kept it brief.

But I have seen the goats get slaps on wrists and allowed to continue in their sin... it is a reproach to the body. But it is also true that the Gospel has been watered down and therefore taken the double edged sword and sheathed it in the scabbard of either fear or complacency - or both.

[fishboi87]

no, its because weve taken the blade off the gospel, were trying to make goats act like sheep, ill tell you HIS SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE AND FOLLOW HIM. AMEN

[mrspogadaeus]

So many have lost the godly fear of the Lord because so many churches do not practice church discipline, or if they do, they practice such a diluted form of discipline that it is basically impotent. As a result, the church has become filled with sin and a laughingstock in the eyes of those we are supposed to be reaching. Lord help us to shed the fear of man and start being the church without spot or blemish... a Bride fit for the Groom.