disfellowship
Speech parts
1. disfellowship - Noun
2. disfellowship - Verb
Meaning
To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate.
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Congregational discipline and conflict resolution are applied using various forms of consultation, mediation, and discussion, with disfellowship (similar to excommunication ) being the final response to those with unorthodox practices or beliefs.
However, in practice disfellowship for doctrinal reasons is now unusual.
However, there was some controversy over the method the leadership took to disfellowship Houteff.