Censures and Restoration

#Overview

This subarticle makes the chapter more usable for courts and pastoral training by focusing on actual disciplinary outcomes.

The relation of admonition, suspension, and excommunication to repentance and restoration.

#Key topics

• Admonition
• Suspension
• Excommunication
• Restoration

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

#Discipline for holiness and peace

Church censures are framed as a means of preserving holiness, guarding truth, and reclaiming offenders for restoration ¹.

#Keys, purposes, and outcomes

The subarticles walk readers from the spiritual basis of discipline to its pastoral purposes and actual censures.

#Study note

This chapter belongs beside the Book of Discipline in the constitutional wiki tree.

#Sources

• [1] RPCNA convictions - Official constitutional landing page.
• [2] OPC Westminster Confession of Faith - Public full-text host used as an accessible article reference.

#Rights note

Summary-first treatment only. ²