Provoke One Another!

Provoke: "to excite, to irritate, to stir up." I think this is a stronger intent than our culture realizes. We are so gentile with our delivery these days that a rebuke is hardly recognizable. As humans, we don't notice the importance of a matter until the delivery is intense, then we can see. We are so steeped in "self esteem" that there is a fear looming over everyone that they might upset the hearer, so their message becomes practically impotent.

Hebrews 10:24-25
King James Version (KJV)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.