Love One Another - How to Restore Others After Moral Failure, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 21 March 2025
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Summary
What happens when someone you love and respect has a moral failure? How do you respond? What does scripture say about dealing with people who have failed morally? Join Chip as he discusses how to restore someone after moral failure.
Main Points
Two extremes!- Exhibit A: Passive Indifference
- Exhibit B: Painful Insensitivity
- Step 1: Private conference --Matthew 18:15
- Step 2: Small group confrontation --Matthew 18:16
- Step 3: Public disclosure Matthew 18:17a
- Step 4: Public exclusion --Matthew 18:17b
The Question: How do we restore those who have fallen?
The Answer: Galatians 6:1-2
What does Galatians 6:1-2 mean?
- The Situation: A fellow Christian is “caught” (overcome) by a sin.
- The Command: The spiritually mature are to restore this believer.
- The Method: Gentleness is to characterize our attitude and the process.
- The Warning: Restoration is a dangerous process even for the mature.
- The Summary: “Bearing one another’s burdens” involves the arduous task of confrontation, forgiveness, comfort, and loving fallen believers back to a position of fellowship and former fruitfulness. (see 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 & Luke 15:11-32)
- We will all “fall” to some degree at some time.
- We must resist our fears and insecurities that lead to passive indifference.
- We must resist our desire for justice and self-righteous tendencies that lead to painful insensitivity.
- We must restore, not “shoot our wounded.”
- How can we fail to do for another what Christ has done for us?
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
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| 0:00.0 | How many times have you heard, judge not, lest you be judged in a conversation? |
| 0:07.0 | Now let me ask you, is there ever a time when we as believers are supposed to judge? |
| 0:14.0 | You want to know the answer to that question? Stick around. You might be surprised. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:25.6 | Our mission is to inspire Christians to be genuine followers of Jesus and to empower them to be active disciple makers in our world. |
| 0:33.6 | We're in the middle of our series Love One Another. |
| 0:36.6 | For the past several broadcasts, we've explored how to embrace those who are different, |
| 0:41.8 | encourage the discouraged, and forge lasting friendships. |
| 0:45.8 | Now, to catch up on any of these enlightening topics, check out the Chippengro Map, |
| 0:50.0 | or Living on the Edge.org. |
| 0:52.7 | But today, Chip tackles the complex issue of rebuilding someone who |
| 0:56.5 | sinned in a significant way, revealing what Scripture says about the balance between grace |
| 1:02.0 | and tough love. If you have a Bible, Chip will be in the book of Galatians chapter 6. So go there |
| 1:07.9 | now as we begin Chip's message, how to restore others after moral |
| 1:11.6 | failure. |
| 1:13.6 | Few things in all the world will tell a church as much about where its hearts at and how |
| 1:21.6 | mature we are, then how we respond. You ready for this? To open, blatant sin in the camp. |
| 1:31.0 | Now, let me repeat that. |
| 1:32.7 | Few things in all the world will tell a church |
| 1:36.1 | about where a church's heart is |
| 1:39.0 | and the level of maturity in that church |
| 1:40.8 | as to how the church responds to open blatant sin in the camp. |
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