Brotherly Correction
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How do we go after the sheep?
How do we go after the sheep?
1. Keep it in Private
1. Keep it in Private
English Standard Version Chapter 18
15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
This is about restoring someone in humility. They might not even know that they have done anything wrong.
1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
The goal is to seek restoration not revenge.
The goal is to seek restoration not revenge.
Jesus understood that if you attack someone right out the gate with what they did to you then they are very unlikely to ask for forgiveness or believe they have done anything wrong. “Or, even if he did it deliberately, your own attitude of submission and love will help him to repent and apologize.”
Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 65.
If you go to your brother with the idea of winning a brother/sister, and not winning an argument you are lease likely to restore them to God and are very likely to be lead astray yourself.
The word restore in Galatians means to set into line like you would a broken bone. When you have a broken bone you put it back in place but you treat the injury with gentleness and respect because it’s tender and it hurts and it’s hard to deal with.
2. Get Other Sheep Involved
2. Get Other Sheep Involved
16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
22 Without counsel plans fail,
but with many advisers they succeed.
Why do we involve other believers?
These need to be believers that are older, will speak truth to you, and is close enough to you to do so. Don’t go seeking the counsel of someone who will only tell you what you want to hear.
They can testify to the truth of the conversation you are having with the other.
15 “A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.
1 This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
So that if YOU are the one that is actually in the wrong they will be able to show you.
3. Get the Church Body Involved
3. Get the Church Body Involved
17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
4. Treat Them as an Unbeliever
4. Treat Them as an Unbeliever
17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
How did Jesus treat the Gentiles and Tax Collectors (i.e. unbelievers)
With compassion, kindness, and gentleness.
He would sit and eat with them offering them healing and forgiveness and offered them the opportunity to repent.
How would we treat a young believer? Then we need to ask how we would treat a non-believer. You give a non-believer double what you would give a young believer.
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