Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute.

And joining me is Dr. Michael Barber, who is a professor of Scripture here at the August Institute, and he's going to be joining me via Zoom because we've had a little bit of an outbreak of COVID here at the Augustine Institute, so you can pray for a couple of our faculty who have it. Luckily, Michael isn't one of those faculty, so he's healthy and good. And we're gonna continue our Bible study

that we've been going through the Gospel of Matthew.

And right now we're at chapter 18 of the Gospel of Matthew.

And we're gonna start up in verse 15,

which is gonna talk about Jesus teaching

about fraternal correction and the importance

of correcting our brothers out of charity and in truthfulness,

and yet also doing that honestly with integrity. And that's so important. Of course,

recently we just had the McCarrick report. And, you know, it's a massive report. It's insufficient

in some ways, but it shows sufficiently a number of failures.

But one of those failures that so many people around McCarrick had was this lack of fraternal correction

and standing up to the church community.

And if they would have followed the biblical principles, Jesus laid down, a lot of scandal would have been prevented

and the problem would have been addressed.

And when we leave sinful, when we leave sinners alone in their sin without correction,

we are making sure that they don't have the opportunity to repent, and that's one thing that's really bad.

And so one of the great tragedies of McCarrick is McCarrick himself.

Here's a man who was allowed to go on living in his sin without anybody really that we know

of correcting him and really challenging him and bringing other people to challenge him.

His salvation is at jeopardy in that.

But so is the salvation of all those who know or suspect strongly but don't

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