Is it right for a church organization to "excommunicate" members?

Question

If so, please give scripture to back your answer. Thank you!!

As you know there is NO mention of any denominations at all in this question. There are many denominations that practice the "excommunicating".

lives7 where in Acts 8:21 does it say what you said? Here is what Acts 8:21 states from the KJV.

Acts 8: 21Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

Therefore, your post is incorrect, very misleading, and shows you didn't do your homework.

Answer 1

Hebrews 12:11 reminds us that "True, no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; yet afterward to those who have been trained by it, it yields peaceable fuit, namely righteousness." So discipline is not pleasant. It isn't intended to be. Having said that, Galations 6:1 says "Brothers, even though a man takes some false step before he is aware of it, you who have spiritual qualifications try to readjust such a man in a spirit of mildness" So we are told that there are those qualified to discipline the congregation.
Who will they discipline? 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 says who " In my letter I wrote you to quit mixing in company with fornicators, not meaning entirely with the fornicators of this world or the greedy persons and the extortioners or idolaters. Otherwise, you would actually have to get out of the world. But quit mixing in company with anyone called a brother that is a fornicator or a greedy person or an idolator or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man" So, we are not to have anything to do with those called a brother, who don't act in a
Godly way." How do we do this?
2 Thessalonians 3:13-15 says this:" For your part, brothers, do not give up in doing right. But if anyone is not obedient to our word, through this letter, keep this one marked, stop associating with him, that he may become ashamed. And yet do not be considering him as an enemy, but continue admonishing him as a brother"
Disfellowshipment from your loved ones and the congregation as a whole is, as we discussed earlier, not pleasant. It is not intended to be! But if the shock of not being with those you love cause you to change your ways and become repentent, then God and the congregation rejoice just as the father did when his son came back home to him in the story of the prodigal son!

Answer 2

Yes. Excommunication clarifies that an individual is no longer functioning within the community of believers.

Acts 8:21
Saint Peter excommunicates first heretic, Simon Magnus.

Answer 3

http://bible.crosswalk.com
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1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this? 3 Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. 4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord. 6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?

7 Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-- 10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. 12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."
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Answer 4

This is not Biblical, this is only my opinion, but I think it depends on what the member did to get excommunicated. I knew a girl in high school who got kicked out of the Mormon church for having sex outside of marriage and had a baby, but the guy ,a fellow Mormon got off. I think a member should only be kicked out in severe cases as in which he's black sliding and has no regard for Jesus, God or the Bible, but only as a last resort.

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

churches pretty much do what they want