BCO 32.7

32.7. 31-7

31-7. When the prosecution is instituted by the court, the previous steps required by our Lord in the case of personal offenses are not necessary. There are many cases, however, in which it will promote the interests of religion to send a committee to converse in a private manner with the offender, and endeavor to bring him to a sense of his guilt, before instituting actual process.

For discussion

1. Put this answer in your own words, then say what it rules out — what belief is it written against?