Can a Protestant really escape excommunication by simply walking into another church, or does that objection misunderstand what church discipline is actually doing? In this video, I work through the challenge given by @CleavetoAntiquity and ask what Matthew 18 really requires us to consider before using excommunication as an argument against Protestantism.

If “whatever you bind” is supposed to establish a broader infallible authority for the Church, then the real question is whether the text actually gets us there. In this video, we slow the argument down and examine the assumptions that often go unnoticed when Matthew 16, Matthew 18, Acts 15, and the Council of Nicaea are brought into the conversation.

Matthew 18 is often used to support sweeping claims about the Church’s authority, but what exactly is Jesus promising when he says that what is bound on earth will have been bound in heaven? In this video, we slow the passage down, follow the context carefully, and ask how far that promise really goes.