The ministers, elders, and deacons shall mutually exercise Christian censure and shall exhort and kindly admonish one another with regard to the execution of their office.
To the ‘supervision over doctrine and worship’ belongs also the
so-called ‘censura morum’ or ‘fraternal censure’.
This is in particular exercised in relation to the execution of
the office of the ministers, elders and deacons. They exhort and
admonish one another in a brotherly manner.
Usually this ‘fraternal censure’ is exercised prior to the
administration of the Lord’s Supper. This may be a good ‘time
table’, but our Church Order does not mention any relation with
the Lord’s Supper. The point, then, is not whether or not the
office-bearer would be able to celebrate the Lord’s Supper
together, but whether they execute their office in a faithful
way.