Discipline Procedures

These are a series of pastoral walk through of the process:

• Tell it to the church, Ray C. Stedman This one is mainstream protestant.
  
• David Merck This book length work tries to address some of the areas of disagreement. For example if/when immediate excommunications should be used for heinous sins.
• Xenos a very non traditional church actually has a fairly mainstream disciplinary procedure, (see also, and ) though it is particularly well written which is why I've linked to it.
• A collection of issues by Paul Mizza: members with relatives that defend them, old people, members quitting, members feeling the discipline is unloving
• Presbyterian Discipline (a several hundred page text book by Stuart Jones)
• Bill Zimmer of Grace Church (John MacArthur's church) gives a Q&A on this policy
• Challenge and Beauty 1990 book written by a conservative Presbyterian directed at the member rather than the pastor.
  
• An unusual walk through in that it looks at passages like Rom 7:15-20 and Gal 6:1-5 as well as the more typical ones. In 6 parts: part1 part2 part3 part4 part5 part6
• Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church, at acts29 presents a pretty good list of acts which are disciplinary and associated verses. 2 hour lecture and notes
• Ken Sande of Peacemaker does a Q&A part1 part2
• La Vista put together a nice outline
  
• Mark Dever's Polity has historical and current documents
• Sola Dei Gloria (PJ Miller) has an excellent article breaking out classes of sins, reminiscent of Mell but modern.
  
• A brief description of Mormon procedures by Elder Ballard

Historical:

• P H Mell (1860) Reformed Baptist full textbook
• ELEAZER SAVAGE (1863) Reformed Baptist text, this is most notable because it sees Matthew 18 as a series of levels not a series of steps and thus classifies sins by seriousness (which deserve immediate excommunication...)
• The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter (1656) has quite a bit on the subject, in particular rationale.
  
• A Q&A from McLeod (1806)
• John Owen, The True Nature of a Gospel Church and its Government (1689)
  
• John Knox The Order of Excommunication and of Public Repentance (1569) (Very different from modern practice, worth reading)
• Cambridge Platform (Congregational 1648)
  
• John Calvin Institutes Book IV chapter 12 (1536)