Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast - Love One Another - How to Restore Others After Moral Failure, Part 1
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.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown i