Purposes of Censure

#Overview

This subarticle keeps the ends of discipline in full view so restoration is not detached from correction.

Why discipline aims at repentance, purity, and the honor of Christ rather than mere punishment.

#Key topics

• Censure
• Repentance
• Purity

These topics mark the doctrinal and navigational center of the page 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