How to Confront a Friend about their sin on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

ACBC every year hosts an annual conference on the topic of biblical counseling as it relates to some pressing issue.

This year is our 40th anniversary, and we wanted our annual conference to be about the key theological themes that have undergirded

the biblical counseling movement for its entire existence. One of the things that we're doing this

year is hosting a pre-conference with our ministry partners, non-marks. They are equally as committed

to the truth as we are, and they're also committed as are we to having that truth be lived out in the

context of the local church. We want you to join with us at this pre-conference and this

annual conference on October 3rd, 4th, and 5th in Indianapolis, Indiana, and I want to encourage

you to register for that event. We're taking the opportunity to focus on those themes of life

lived in the context of the local church on the podcast. And our topic this week is how to

confront a friend about their sin. We all, of course, if we go to church, we go to churches

with sinful people in them. and we are going to notice

sinful people doing sinful things, and we want to talk about how to handle that today when we

see it. So before we talk about how to confront a friend about their sin, we need to talk about

if we should confront someone about their sin. we need to talk about if we should confront

someone about their sin. How would a person know if it is his or her job to confront another

person? Yeah, the reason this is such an important issue to address before we get to how is because

I have had so many conversations with Christian people over the years who operate under the

assumption that it is none of their business to address sin in the life of a brother or sister in

Christ. They think it's their business, it's not mine. I don't have any authority to speak

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