Church Discipline What is church discipline? What are the scriptural steps in carrying out church discipline? What is the purpose of church discipline? Is church discipline unloving? Will church discipline drive people off? Why don't congregations practice church discipline today? Can you withdraw from a person that has already withdrawn from the congregation? (i.e. has not attended for a long time) How is the person that is disfellowshipped to be treated? When the disfellowshipped repent, how should they be treated? What if the church gets sued for practicing church discipline? What should a congregation do if a person, that has been disfellowshipped by another congregation, starts attending with them? Can one individual in a congregation disfellowship someone, while the rest of the congregation does not? Can one congregation disfellowship another congregation?