God has ordained three original jurisdictional authorities for humans: family, magistracy, and church. Each are originally good and have specific purposes. In a proper arrangement, all three should work together.

Family is the most basic civil unit because it is the only jurisdiction which can actually produce people. It has original jurisdiction of these people, as well, since parents care for their children and are called to raise them in spiritual nurture.

The civil magistrate orders and protects the various people as they relate. It can also intervene, in limited but necessary ways, if the family becomes self-destructive. The Scriptures are clear that magistrates should praise the good and punish the bad.

The church is the assembly of believers & their ordering offices. The church is to proclaim God's word and to teach & model obedience to it. The church can at times challenge both family & magistrate, but this is not essential. It happens when the other jurisdictions are in error

The civil magistrate "bears the sword" and so has the final "monopoly" on violence. The family has limited coercive abilities which only "work" within a context of love and care. The church is fully non-violent and operates with persuasion and/or expulsion.

Civil magistrate has the most variance throughout the Scriptures. We see tribal confederations, nation-states, and even empires in the Bible. None are totally endorsed as the singular way to go. None are rejected as totally illicit.

The Christian is to be loyal but detached.

There are certain, very limited, times when rebellion is justified. The basic rule, however, is that Christians are to bear with affliction and only "resist" when they are being commanded to sin.

To be sinned against is not a sin.

The Church proclaims the word and models proper ethical and spiritual behavior. The preaching and teaching does the majority of the work, and then the deaconate assists those without full family support.

Discipline is used against those who persist in open sin.

The center of teaching and discipline is the Lord's Supper or Eucharist. It is a ritual communal meal where participants model their solidarity and love. If they profane this meal through their sinful attitudes, then they face God's judgment.

The Church warns grave sinners not to partake of the meal, and the Church expels obstinate scandalous or divisive sinners from the body.

The family is like and unlike both church and civil magistrate. It is tasked with spiritual and material goals. It loves, nurtures, and punishes. It is treated as a holy unit in the NT, and yet it is possible for unbelievers to be in the same family with believers.

Unbelief is not grounds for expulsion from a family. At the same time, the NT always points to persuasion as the way to change an unbelieving family-member into a believer.