Church Discipline

• Tad R. Callister, "The Inevitable Apostasy", pp. 286-288

Views of the church leaders before the Great Apostasy on church discipline.

The need for church discipline and how the slackening thereof contributed to the Great Apostasy.

• Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 75

Elders are not to try members for transgressions and offenses.

This is said to be true of Zion in her unorganized condition. (Uncertain as to what scope that entails for these injunctions.)

Cross-References

• Adultery
• Apostasy
• Discipline