I have had believers tell me that their Christianity is a personal thing, that we should not correct others, God will do that.
The devil loves this! The Bible is replete with Scriptures that tell us to love our brothers and the way to do that, of which is to correct, rebuke, exhort and admonish in all longsuffering.
Why would God say "in all longsuffering"? Perhaps it is because there will be much correction and many people do not like correction, and even their friends will not accept those who correct others.
Two of my previous posts explain what real love looks like and it is nothing like all the things we have been taught in public school and even in most churches now.
No where in the Word does God say that our Christian walk is a personal thing. God makes us a family when we become born again and we should be deeply involved with and caring about the lives of our brothers and sisters.
I realize that is very hard these days because there are so few in the church who understand this and love to keep their lives private.
1 John 3:14
"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death."
Seek God's Word for His kind of love!
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