1. How can a married Christian contribute to the restoration of his or her disfellowshiped marriage partner without being out of harmony with the congregation’s disfellowshiping action?

2. Disfellowshipping shows love for . . .

3. Why Disfellowshipping Is a Loving Provision

4. Why is it loving to disfellowship an unrepentant wrongdoer?

5. □ Why is disfellowshipping a last resort?

6. Why must unrepentant wrongdoers be disfellowshipped?

7. Eventually, the wrongdoer was disfellowshipped.

8. When a Minor Is Disfellowshipped

9. Evidently, only a minority was disfellowshipped.

10. How might the propriety of disfellowshipping be illustrated?

11. Disfellowshipping may bring the wrongdoer to his senses.

12. (b) What was the effect of the disfellowshipping action?

13. It saddens us when individuals have to be disfellowshipped.

14. How should we treat a disfellowshipped relative?

15. Be Loyal When a Relative Is Disfellowshipped

16. □ What can we learn from some personal expressions about disfellowshipping?

17. Refusal to care for one’s family may result in disfellowshipping.

18. Nobody arbitrarily determines that the practice of a particular sin requires disfellowshipping.

19. If there is an appeal, announcement of the disfellowshipping will be postponed.

20. 24 In another case, Laurie’s parents were disfellowshipped.

21. Display Christian Loyalty When a Relative Is Disfellowshipped

22. Hence remarriage without Scriptural permission or authorization is adulterous and the congregation will disfellowship the offender.

23. If the decision is to disfellowship and there is an appeal, announcement is held in abeyance.

24. What have many disfellowshipped ones done, and with what result?

25. (b) How would this apply to a minor who has been disfellowshipped?

26. 18 min: “Display Christian Loyalty When a Relative Is Disfellowshipped.”

27. “Thirty-five years ago my husband and I were disfellowshipped.

28. Joachim was baptized in 1955, but in 1978 he was disfellowshipped.

29. Disfellowshipped persons should not be included on a personal magazine route.

30. While I was disfellowshipped, I knew that Jehovah’s Witnesses taught the truth.”

31. 14 Sometimes, in order to keep the congregation clean, elders have to disfellowship an unrepentant wrongdoer.

32. For example, a disfellowshiped parent may be sick or no longer able to care for himself financially or physically.

33. 10. (a) What is one reason so many are reproved or disfellowshipped each year?

34. □ What Scriptural direction should be borne in mind even if a relative is disfellowshipped?

35. Since they are not baptized members of the congregation, they cannot be formally disfellowshipped.

36. Her marriage mate may be an unbeliever or even a disfellowshipped person.

37. If expulsion occurs, this brief announcement would be made: “ . . . has been disfellowshipped.”

38. In what way has the arrangement of disfellowshipping proved to be a blessing to God’s people?

39. He was eventually found out and had to be disfellowshipped from the congregation.

40. He set out the possibility of a disfellowshiping action where no repentance was manifested on the part of the sinning one.

41. (1 Corinthians 5:11; 2 John 9-11) The disfellowshipping arrangement protects Jehovah’s name and the congregation.

42. Those who refused to give up the misuse of tobacco were to be disfellowshipped.

43. Judicial action is necessary only if a gross sin has been committed that could lead to disfellowshipping.

44. The “disorderly” ones were not guilty of grave sin, as was the man disfellowshipped in Corinth.

45. (2 Corinthians 7:1) If the boy is not repentant, he would be disfellowshipped.

46. In time, the disfellowshipped woman was reinstated, and eventually she also became a regular pioneer.

47. “Disfellowshipping is an arrangement that we need, one that helps us live according to Jehovah’s standards,” Julian concludes.

48. When it comes to wrongdoers, what should be the first objective of elders, and when only would they take disfellowshiping action?

49. When someone is disfellowshipped, we have no more dealings with that person and we stop talking to him.

50. In part by the judicial process of disfellowshipping those who would taint the congregation.—1 Corinthians 5:9-13.

51. Of course, persistent and unrepentant violators of God’s law are disfellowshipped.—1 Corinthians 5:9-13.

52. Regarding praying in behalf of a disfellowshipped relative, see The Watchtower, December 1, 2001, pages 30-1.

53. Think of the immoral man in Corinth who went after “the flesh” and had to be disfellowshipped.

54. There is no reason to be unduly concerned about the seating location of a disfellowshipped person in the Kingdom Hall.

55. Considering what Paul wrote at 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, how should we react if a family member is disfellowshipped?

56. We can see that from what the apostle Paul said about the man disfellowshipped from the Corinthian congregation.

57. For a discussion of a relative’s being disfellowshipped, see The Watchtower of September 15, 1981, pages 26-31.

58. A disfellowshipped person is not automatically accepted back into the congregation after a certain amount of time has passed.

59. (1 Corinthians 5:1-5) When disfellowshipped and thus handed over to Satan, the sinner was again part of the Devil’s world.

60. If someone practices sin and will not repent, he will be excluded from the congregation —disfellowshipped. —1 Corinthians 5:9-13.

61. He explained that his sister had been disfellowshipped for immorality and added that he wanted to join an organization that “does not tolerate bad conduct.”

62. Thereafter, the local judicial committee will communicate with the body of elders of the congregation that disfellowshipped the individual, giving them their recommendation.

63. 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.

64. Even at the time of disfellowshipping an individual, the elders, as shepherds, will urge him to repent and try to make his way back into Jehovah’s favor.

65. (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.

66. 7 However, The Watchtower of September 15, 1981, page 28, points out regarding the disfellowshipped or disassociated person: “Former spiritual ties have been completely severed.

67. 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.”

68. For more information about disfellowshipped minor children living in the home, see The Watchtower of October 1, 2001, pages 16-17, and November 15, 1988, page 20.

69. On the very night that the disfellowshipping of the former elder was announced, the aggrieved husband strode into the Kingdom Hall with a rifle and fired at the two guilty individuals.

70. On the evening that the disfellowshipping of the former elder was announced, the infuriated husband strode into the Kingdom Hall with a shotgun and fired shots at the two guilty individuals.

71. (1 Timothy 3:3, 8) A Christian who greedily and unrepentantly extorts a high bride-price may even be disfellowshipped from the congregation.—1 Corinthians 5:11, 13; 6:9, 10.

72. Disfellowshipped relatives living outside the home should be handled according to the Scriptural counsel discussed in The Watchtower of April 15, 1988, pages 26-31; September 15, 1981, pages 26-31.

73. As indicated on pages 19 and 20 of the November 15, 1988, issue of The Watchtower, parents may even study the Bible with a disfellowshipped minor who continues to live with them.

74. In the past, this magazine has clearly stated the proper attitude that a Christian should strive to maintain when it comes to association with a disfellowshipped relative who is not living at home.

75. ▪ The elders are reminded to follow through on instructions given on pages 21-3 of the April 15, 1991, Watchtower regarding any disfellowshipped or disassociated ones who may be inclined toward becoming reinstated.

76. 9 Relatives Not in the Household: “The situation is different if the disfellowshipped or disassociated one is a relative living outside the immediate family circle and home,” states The Watchtower of April 15, 1988, page 28.

77. 13 After hearing a talk at a circuit assembly, a brother and his fleshly sister realized that they needed to make adjustments in the way they treated their mother, who lived elsewhere and who had been disfellowshipped for six years.