Ginny,Just to make a very small addition ( time compromised at present! ) to Richie's point regarding the man thought to be involved in an incestuous relationship probably with his step-mother and described in the scriptures noted above.
Paul’s 1st letter, suggesting that Christians might not seek fellowship with such a person was written in 55CE while he was in Ephesus.
Paul’s 2nd letter again written from Ephesus
that same year and suggested that the man had ceased his incestuous relationship and Paul encouraged his friends to take him back in friendship lest he become overly saddened.
Given the traveling required to deliver these letters to the congregation in Cornith, and to receive news back, and given that they were both written the same year, we have to conclude that this situation must have been dealt with in a few short months, perhaps even weeks. This is the only
practical case contained in scripture that seems to indicate a process being enacted to discipline adherents in the early church.
No restrictions, judicial committees, announcements, just a simple and rapid re-affirmation of Brotherhood once the immorality had ceased. The WTS has gone way beyond the bounds of scripture and actually developed a system that bears more resemblance to a political trial than a theological aid.
HS