Synopsis
The thesis of this booklet is as follows: There is no scriptural authority to employ any form of punishment, including corporal punishment, to bring about a change in a person’s behavior, including a child’s behavior, during the New Testament Christian era. This booklet is divided into three sections: 1) PCT and the Bible; 2) RTP and the Bible; and 3) Punishment vs. Discipline. In section 1, the connection between PCT and the Bible will be developed, followed by a listing of several principles related to PCT. In section 2, the connection between RTP and the Bible will be developed, followed by a listing of several principles related to RTP. Section 3 will support the notion that punishment was never biblically authorized as a method to change disruptive behavior. In fact, this author believes that PCT and RTP are both biblically based concepts, and that RTP based upon PCT is the method of choice when dealing with disruptive behavior in any environment. Throughout Church history, major doctrines have become lost from church practice only to be rediscovered at some later date. It is this author’s opinion that discipline as the biblical method of dealing with disruptive behavior has been lost from both secular and church practice throughout his lifetime, dating back seven decades, but has been rediscovered by Mr. Ed Ford who was encouraged by the work of William T. Powers who developed PCT that became the foundation from which RTP was launched. Rediscover God's plan for changing disruptive behavior, a plan that does not include punishment as its means.
About the Author
Dr. James A. Brettell, born in Mingo Junction, Ohio, November 2, 1934, graduated Mingo Junction High School in 1952, worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the F.B.I., played professional baseball in the Pittsburgh Pirate system, and served nine years in the United States Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. He earned All-Navy recognition for pitching two baseball no-hitters within four days, and pitched in the “world series” finals of military baseball in 1957. He was stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during the “Castro revolution” and stationed in Trinidad during the Cuban missile crisis. He was saved at age 27 while stationed at the U.S. Naval Station, Trinidad, W.I. His academic background is diverse. He studied at George Washington University, College of Steubenville, Kent State University, Akron University, Oklahoma University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Luther Rice Seminary, and University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His earned degrees: B.S. in Ed. from Akron University; MDiv and DMin from Luther Rice Seminary. His pastorates: North Maple Baptist Church, Stuttgart, Arkansas; South Highland Baptist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas; Bible Doctrine Church of Little Rock; Bible Doctrine Church of the Deaf; and presently pastors the Little Rock NetChurch. He has made twenty missions trips to Mindanao, and two to Seoul, Korea. He has been a Youth Camp speaker and has hosted an annual Arkansas Winter Family Retreat. He has hosted several of his own radio programs and a television program. He presently hosts a ninety minute daily radio program, a weekly Monday Night Home Bible Study, two one hour Little Rock NetChurch worship services every Sunday morning, and a weekly Sunday evening Webex meeting. He has streamed ten “live” video services a week to the internet. He has previously authored two books: “Christianity in Spiritual Perspective: Are You Sick-and-Tired of Being Sick-and Tired?” and “The Neutrality of the Soul: the Neutral Soul Reckons the Old-man Dead.” He has been married to Janet Shawhan Brettell since 1956 and has three adult children, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
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