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Q: Paul in NT talks about 2 or 3 witnesses? Explain this A: Paul’s reference to “two or three witnesses” appears in several New Testament passages, especially 1 Timothy 5:19, 2 Corinthians 13:1, and 1 Corinthians 5:1–13 as a related passage about church discipline. The key question is how the biblical requirement for witnesses relates to church discipline, accusations against church leaders, and the protection of the church from false charges. The central principle is that serious accusations must be established by credible evidence, not merely by someone’s allegation. The requirement protects both the accused from unjust condemnation and the church from unaddressed wrongdoing. The expression comes from the Old Testament law, particularly Deuteronomy 19:15, and Paul applies it to New Testament church life. 1. The main passage: 1 Timothy 5:19–21 This is the most direct passage if you are asking about accusations against pastors, elders, or church leaders. 1 Timothy 5:17–21  17 Let t...

On black churches, modesty, church discipline & correction, turning from worldly to godly. Re: The Church calling out women for immodesty, & on Denominations Problems in the black church. Black churches sadly have been notorious for being full of false teachings even from America's early days . It has always bent more liberal, instead of biblical. Today some biblical black churches exist, but outside of black communities, black Americans and those on the path to citizenship, should be in a mixed church, not ethnically singular. It can open them up to truth and educate on many things the black church has wrong. But also since we are to be one in Christ, not divided. Not segregated. Today more black churches are coming under biblical leadership & teaching, and thats good. But believers looking for a church need to be knowledgeable about what to look for, (be learned on foundations biblical truths of Christianity and the Gospel), so they dont walk into a false church.  Th...

Lack of Loving and Compassionate Church Discipline by Paul Washer “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.” — Galatians 6:1 Most evangelical pastors in America today ought to take Matthew 18 and rip it right out of their Bible.[1] But you can’t do that; you have got to take the whole Bible—or not any of it at all! Many pastors leave their theology behind when they come out of their study. They are theological in conversation; they are theological in their office—but when they step out, they run the church by carnal means.  I am not an elder at my church and so I can say this without boasting. Our church practices church discipline.[2] It is a very large church, with about one thousand attending. The pastors estimate they have saved thirty marriages in the last several years through loving, compassionate church discipline—church discipline that does n...