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2. Admonishment from love and concern and not haughtiness. Paul wrote about a brother who had been admonished, corrected and warned do not regard him as an enemy, but warn (there the same word as admonish) warn him as a brother. (2 Thessalonians 3:15) Admonishment isn canada goose what you do to label somebody, it not what you do to criticize somebody and it not what you do to be ugly to somebody. It to help brothers and sisters. It stems out of love and concern.

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In those two verses Paul recognizes the great difficulty of shepherding a church. He knows that those men who are going to serve as elders are going to at times need to redirect the thinking of some of the members who are in error. He charges us to support those men whose task it is to do so. Leaders cannot lead a church if they turn their head to sin because it will destroy their credibility. But it also true that leaders can lead if they are not supported by and respected by the body when they do admonish. Likewise, members will not be able to support leaders if they are not informed about what the leaders are attempting to correct or accomplish. If a church has leaders who care enough to confront carefully and lovingly, they should be held in the highest esteem by the members of that body.

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C. What does it take to be an admonisher? If it http://www.mycanadagoosejacket.org going to be a ministry that we do how do we do it?

a) canada goose coats Be full of goodness. myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness. (Romans 15:14 NIV) See that what allows them the ability to admonish. He says, you got Christian character and you got a level of maturity. Thus, you have the credibility when it comes time to admonish.

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Now not everybody in the church can be an admonisher. There are some folks in every church who don walk with enough credibility to admonish somebody else. I not talking about perfection, but I am talking about walking the walk. Then there are other people in the church who are too ignorant of Scripture to be able to adequately admonish somebody else. But every church must have some, hopefully many, members who are mature enough to be admonishers.

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1. Admonish violations of Scripture, and let let that be the parameter. Some of you may think this violates the command to one another because of other passages in Romans. Paul said let us stop passing judgment on one another (Romans 14:13); one another, just as Christ accepted you (Romans 15:7) and yes, but I do want you to also admonish one another. I want you to correct one another. (Romans 15:14) You may be scratching your head and asking, what gives? I don understand. we seeing here again is the need for balance and discernment in the body. If you haven figured it out, let me make it clear for you. Paul in Romans 14 and 15 argues that there is considerable room in the body for opinion. In fact, there is considerable room for personal conviction. But there is no room in the body for deliberate sin. Paul made it clear that in matters of opinion and personal conviction, there should be acceptance. But admonishment brings a brother or a sister face to face with the teaching of Scripture. We must humbly and lovingly point out these violations. I like what one old preacher said, you can bring God Word into the matter, then the matter is not worth bringing up. That the parameter for admonishment.

2. Be sure to examine your own life. A man stepped on one of those old timey scales and put in his nickel. It gave him a little card along with his weight. He nudged his wife and said, look it says handsome, witty, and intelligent. She said, me that card. She looked at it and said, and it got your weight wrong, too. Do you know what you need to do before you admonish somebody else? You really do need to weigh your life. Jesus taught that principle in the Sermon on the Mount do you try to get the speck out of your brother eye before you look at that giant beam sticking out of your own eye. (Matthew 7:3) You cannot be an admonisher until you first examine your own walk with God and be sensitive to it.

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5. Encourage the one who responds. Maybe they respond from you just going one on one or, maybe it after two or three times. I don know, but encourage the one. In Corinth a brother was just living in open rebellion. He was in some kind of incestuous union. Paul said, tolerate that church, that just dead wrong. (1 Corinthians 5) So, they exercised the spiritual discipline we talked about a moment ago. He responded by repenting. But some of the brothers and sisters were holding it against him, even after he repented. As a result Paul said, about that brother, you ought to forgive and comfort him so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. (2 Corinthians 2:7) Make sure you understand that nobody role is to be only an admonisher.

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