disfellowship

However, there was some controversy over the method the leadership took to disfellowship Houteff.

Some groups use the term disfellowship instead.

It can also disfellowship churches at its discretion.

A 1973 policy change to disfellowship tobacco users was explained as a decision that "Jehovah has brought to the attention of his 'holy' people".

Her family's involvement with Millerism caused their disfellowship by the local Methodist church.

The required just reproof and disfellowship of evildoers.

It's all hidden by doctrine and history and threats of disfellowship and excommunication.

"Links to the disfellowship of Grant Palmer"

Disciplinary measure short of excommunication are probation or disfellowship, in which a member is temporarily denied certain privileges like praying in church or participating in sacraments.

On March 3, 1988 the general eldership signed a recommendation to the Senior elders, requesting the Senior elders disfellowship Barnett.

The other exception to the disfellowship rule is "unbaptized children" and other former PCG attendees who may have been baptized but were not "validly baptized."

At the conclusion of this debate on Unfulfilled Prophecy, both principals harmoniously concurred that the issue was not worth further discussion and should not be a cause for disfellowship.

Besides her disfellowship, Ms. Whitesides said she had been warned against publicly criticizing church leaders or talking about her controversial belief in praying to a Mother in Heaven.

Congregational discipline and conflict resolution are applied using various forms of consultation, mediation, and discussion, with disfellowship (similar to excommunication) being the final response to those with unorthodox practices or beliefs.

After Barnett learned of the elderships' attempts to disfellowship him on the morning of March 4, 1988, Barnett found an attorney in the Phone book named Rodney Pierce.

The Clapham brethren then demanded of Birmingham Temperance Hall ecclesia that they also "disfellowship" A. Davis and T. Pearce for abstaining in the vote.

Williams supported Birmingham Temperance Hall's addition to BSF 1877 of the new "Foundation Clause", and therefore the "disfellowship" of the Suffolk St. group.

Their claims included assault and battery, outrage, "ministerial malpractice", negligent counseling, "wrongful disfellowship", counselor malpractice, infliction of emotion distress, loss of consortium, loss of parental consortium and defamation, among others.

(This rare and virtually unique disciplinary procedure was used for Cowley because his former fellow apostles in the Quorum of Twelve disagreed over whether to leave him undisciplined or to disfellowship or even excommunicate him.)

Then in 1923 F.G. Jannaway broke with Walker, his former travelling companion in Palestine, when Birmingham failed to discipline two of their "Arranging Brethren" who had abstained on a vote to "disfellowship" two members serving as special constables.

The Birmingham Temperance Hall meeting did eventually "disfellowship" the two special constables, after opposition from two Arranging Brethren of the ecclesia, A. Davis and T. Pearce, who signalled disagreement by abstaining in the final vote on the issue.

Once the decision to disfellowship has been made, a person has seven days to appeal, after which, if the person has not appealed, the disfellowshipping will be announced to the congregation; disfellowshipping does not take effect until the announcement is made to the congregation.

Following his abjuration and rebaptism he went to England on a preaching tour in June 1848 including Reformation Movement churches, Although his abjuration and his disfellowship in America were reported in the British churches magazines certain churches in the movement still allowed him to present his views.