“they may learn not to blaspheme anymore” (1 Tim. 1:20) For sinners to be restored to the church-community or to find salvation remains the goal of church discipline. It remains a pedagogical act. The declaration of the church-community will certainly stand for eternity if the sinner does not repent. However, this declaration with which the church-community must take away the sinner’s salvation is just as certainly the final offer of life together with the church-community and of salvation.[3][4]
