Censures and Restoration

#Overview

This child article gives the disciplinary branch a place for outcomes, repentance, and restoration without collapsing the whole book into one block of text.

How censures function, why they are ordered, and how restoration belongs to discipline.

#Key topics

• Censures
• Restoration
• Repentance

These topics mark the doctrinal and navigational center of the page ¹.

#Related pages

• Purposes of Censure — Why discipline aims at repentance, purity, and the honor of Christ rather than mere punishment.
• Restoration and Return — How the church receives repentance and what restoration is meant to look like in ordered pastoral practice.

Use these child pages to move from the overview into narrower study units ¹.

#Discipline as pastoral care

The Book of Discipline is not just a procedural manual. It exists to help the church deal with offenses in a way that seeks truth, preserves holiness, and aims at restoration ¹.

#Process, censure, and restoration

Readers should trace how a matter enters the church, how it is examined, what censures may follow, and how a restored member returns to fellowship.

#Study note

This branch stays summary-first, so the wiki points to the constitutional structure without reproducing long procedural text.

#Sources

• [1] RPCNA convictions - Official constitutional landing page.

#Rights note

Summary-first treatment only. ²