Why Disfellowshipping Is a Loving Provision

JULIAN remembers how he felt when he listened to the announcement that his son was no longer  one of Jehovah's Witnesses.  "My whole world seem to come to an end," he says.  "He was my oldest child, and we were very close; we did lots of things together."  Julian explains that his son had always behaved well, but then he changed began doing bad things. Julian's wife cried again and again, and he did not know how to comfort her.  Julian says, "We kept asking ourselves if we had somehow failed as parents." 

What reasons does the Bible give for disfellowhipping someone?  And since it causes so much pain, why can we say that disfellowshipping is an act of love? 

Next time: Why Disfellowshipping Is a Loving Provision

From the Watchtower magazine, 2015