Heidelberg Catechism · Lord’s Day 31

Question 85

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How is the kingdom of heaven shut and opened by Christian discipline?

Thus: when according to the command of Christ,^a those, who under the name of Christians, maintain doctrines, or practices inconsistent therewith,^b and will not, after having been often brotherly admonished, renounce their errors and wicked course of life, are complained of to the church,^c or to those, who are thereunto appointed by the church:^d and if they despise their admonition, are by them forbid the use of the sacraments; whereby they are excluded from the Christian church, and by God himself from the kingdom of Christ;^e and when they promise and show real amendment, are again received as members of Christ and his church.^f

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