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.)
- Joseph Smith, cited in History of the Church 5:215
- I did not like the old man being called up [for discipline] for erring in doctrine. It looks too much like the Methodists, and not like the Latter-day Saints. Methodists have creeds which a man must believe or be asked out of their church. I want the liberty of thinking and believing as I please. It feels so good not to be trammelled. It does not prove that a man is not a good man because he errs in doctrine.
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