Calling Fouls: Giving and Receiving Scriptural Correction
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. —Hebrews 3:13
How do I
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Psalm 139:23-24 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
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“I suggest that the beam in our eye is simply our unloving reaction to the other man’s mote. Without doubt there is a wrong in the other person. But our reaction to that wrong is wrong too! The mote in him has provoked in us resentment, or coldness, or criticism, or bitterness, or evil speaking or ill will - all of them variants of the basic ill, unlove.” —Roy Hession, The Calvary Road
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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. —Galatians 6:1
How do I
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Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” —1 Peter 5:5
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Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. —Hebrews 13:17
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. —Proverbs 27:6
Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. —Proverbs 15:32
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Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. —Proverbs 9:8
Next Steps:
1 . Who is someone you need to pray through giving scriptural correction to?
2 . Who is someone you can ask to be honest with you about ways you can grow or change personally?