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How Not to Correct a Fellow Christian

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

How can Christians challenge and correct one another in a way that honors Christ and acknowledges our common neediness before him?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, there are right ways to correct other believers, and there are wrong ways to correct

0:09.4

other believers, so what's the difference?

0:12.2

Romans 14, 13 says this,

0:14.4

"...therefore, let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide

0:19.9

never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother."

0:25.4

Here's John Piper explaining the meaning of this point from a 2005 sermon.

0:30.8

I take judgment who are you to pass judgment on your brother?

0:34.8

To mean two things. One, don't be critical of your fellow believer

0:41.2

without manifesting strong affections of brotherly love.

0:46.5

You can see how I'm saying it, because I'm leaving room for all the texts that say

0:50.8

correct one another, admonished one another, rebuked one another.

0:53.6

You've got to pass judgment if you're going to obey the Bible,

0:58.1

but this text got to mean something when he says, don't judge,

1:02.8

and the first thing, I'm picking it out from the word brother,

1:06.4

see the highlight on the brother, who are you to judge your brother?

1:11.3

In other words, be careful here that when you undertake to do some correcting,

1:17.6

some admonishing, some rebuking, let brotherhood be all over it,

1:23.2

not a spirit of condemnation. We created a word for this bad thing,

1:28.1

judge men tall. Where did that word come from?

1:31.2

Why was that created in English? This verse, that's why,

1:35.2

or something like this verse, everybody knows there's a right time to correct someone and tell

1:40.6

them they're doing something little stupid, and there's a way to do it in a wrong time to do it,

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