TulipGirl: Restoring Gently and Carrying Burdens - AN AWESOME POST!!!! read it!
i am amazedi finally found it again... i had read this post by the lovely tulip girl, and didn't bookmark it, and then looked and looked and looked and couldn't find it..... and now i did! out of the blue!!!! go figure.
anyways.... the scripture tells us that if we know of someone caught in a sin, we who are spiritual should restore him gently.... watchin ourselves, to make sure we are not tempted.... and carry each others burdens..... and this is how we fill fulfill the law of Christ. (galatians 6:1-2).....
if we see a guy in church hitting a girl, we would pull him aside, i'm sure... and talk to him.. why are you doing that? what happened? love on him.... calm him down.... help him see the error of his ways, speaking the truth in love.
we wouldn't haul him into the other room and yell at him, would we? and if he started pulling away from us, are we going to hollar some more? we wouldn't march him over to the person he struck and make him say 'i'm sorry' to the person he hit, when he's so mad himself he can't have really come to a place of repentance? and if he refused, would we harshly tell him he's being a very bad man and is disappointing his parents? we wouldn't drag him by the scruff of his neck into the bathroom, yell at him some more, pull down his pants and spank him, would we?
....so why would we treat children so harshly?
"if someone is caught in a sin....restore him gently..."
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