However, the problem for Christians is determining how to deal with those whose behavior is sinful. Some Christians are seeking to separate the sin from the sinner, rejecting the sin but accepting the sinner. Biblical church discipline is love that attacks a problem, rather than wishing that the problem, or the person, would go away. Church discipline shows love for Christ. Loving God includes following biblical teaching on church discipline.
Church discipline is love in action.
It seeks to magnify Christ and His church, rather than allowing Him to be blasphemed and the church to be ridiculed through acts of unrepentant believers who have not been subjected to church discipline. The steps of church discipline are gentle initially, but become more firm as time goes on if there is no positive response. If this first step fails, then he should take one or two others with him. If these are not successful, then he should take the problem to the official board and attempt to bring the sinning Christian to repentance, without the necessity of taking the matter to the congregation as a whole. However, if the sin is known to the entire congregation, or if it will become known to the entire congregation, then the matter must be settled before the entire congregation.