ABSTRACT
Yohanis Luni Tumanan, A Study of Church
Discipline Implementation based on Matthew 18:15-17 of Church members in the
KIBAID Church in Tana Toraja. Supervised by Rev. Dr. Peniel C. D. Maiaweng
(Promotor) Rev. Dr. Jermia Djadi (Co-Promotor).
Church
discipline is a part of Christ’s mandate for the church, which aims to maintain
the purity and integrity of the church to be a testimony to the world as the
body of Christ. From an ecclesiological view, one sign of true church is the
implementation of biblical church discipline.
This study
aims: first, to determine the trends of church discipline implementation based
Matthew 18:15-17 on church members at the KIBAID Church in Tana Toraja. Second,
to find how large is the tendency of each indicator (X1-X4)
in supporting church discipline implementation based Matthew 18:15-17 on church
fellower KIBAID in Tana Toraja.
The method
used in this study was a survey with explanatory and confirmatory answers.
In-depth observation in this study was done by building theories or to theoretically
examine those variables. The in-depth study (theoretical and theological
review) is intended to result in explanatory or in-depth study of the dependent
variables of “Church discipline implementation based on Matthew 18:15-17 on
church members in the KIBAID Church in Tana Toraja” (Y). In addition, the researcher
conducted a study on church documents such as Basic Budget/Home Budget, dogma
and rule of church KIBAID.