disfellowship in English
If he presented our disfellowship as a vote of confidence in him, they did not see any option but to support him however much they disagreed.
‘When people are disfellowshipped because they're gay,’ he says, ‘they lose their entire support network, often including their families.’
Use "disfellowship" in a sentence
1. Why is it loving to disfellowship an unrepentant wrongdoer?
2. Hence remarriage without Scriptural permission or authorization is adulterous and the congregation will disfellowship the offender.
3. If the decision is to disfellowship and there is an appeal, announcement is held in abeyance.
4. 14 Sometimes, in order to keep the congregation clean, elders have to disfellowship an unrepentant wrongdoer.
5. If the committee is convinced that he sincerely wants help, generally there would be no need to disfellowship him. —See The Watchtower, January 1, 1983, page 31, paragraph 1.
6. (2 Corinthians 11:2) Prior to this, Paul’s jealousy for pure worship had moved him to instruct this same congregation to disfellowship an unrepentant fornicator who was a contaminating influence.
7. 19 Back in 1892, the Watch Tower commented that it is “our duty to disfellowship (as Christians) those who, either directly or indirectly, deny that Christ gave himself a ransom [a corresponding price] for all.”