“If He Repent Not He Shall Not Be Numbered Among My People, That He May Not Destroy My People”
Transgressors who will not repent or who pose a serious threat, physical or spiritual, to the Church are “cut off from the Church”-meaning excommunicated (see Mosiah 26:31-32; Alma 1:24; Mosiah 5:57-58; Mosiah 6:3-6; Moroni 6:7; D&C 20:83). Church discipline is not only intended to help the sinner repent and return to the Lord but also is a means of protecting members and safeguarding the integrity and spiritual values of the Church.
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