Church Discipline 
NEWS-EPISCOPAL CHURCH USA
PROPOSES CHANGES TO DISCIPLINARY CANONS
ECUSA is proposing a new set of
disciplinary canons. The proposed revisions, which
are extensive, are embedded in the text of the message as a link to a .pdf
file. Here at the Canon Law Institute we are still going through them.
However, all should bear in mind that, whatever canons are enacted in ECUSA,
their interpretation is solely the province of the diocesan bishop (see
Dixon v. Edwards) and whatever whim and caprice they apply to them. Thus, as
CLI has pointed out, any canon is likely to be arbitrary or, selective, in
application.
GENERAL SCRIPTURAL WARRANT
The following are selected Scriptural references
which give some guidance as to the appropriate process for dealing with conflict
within the Body and among Believers.
18:15-22.
If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector. I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three
come together in my name, there am I with them.
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"
Jesus answered, I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.
3:9-11.
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him. You may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.
Personal Disputes Between Christians 
6:1-8.
If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church! I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? But instead, one brother goes to law against another--and this in front of unbelievers! The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.