The Bible teaches that church discipline has three purposes. The first is to restore and reconcile believers who are falling into sin. The second is to keep sin from spreading to others in the church. The third is protect the purity of the church and the honour of Christ. All worthy motivations. The Bible also gives us examples of sins that were disciplined in the New Testament. These sins have three commonalities- they are publicly known, they continue over a period of time, and they are destructive to the believer and other believers. The Bible also gives us a clear process for church discipline. Christians should restrict information about the sin to the smallest group, apply measures in increasing strength either if someone has sinned against you or if you have sinned against someone else. Christians should confront lovingly, gently, humbly, tentatively, ready to forgive and exhaustively. The two possible outcomes of this process are either generous restoration or being removed from fellowship as an unbeliever. Church discipline is a very serious process because if a church faithfully follows this process, God agrees with the outcome.