My father always said, "If you are not full of tears and sadness for a fellow Christian who has fallen into sin... You have no business ever opening up your mouth to bring a word of correction"! Humility/anguish and a passion for your brother or sister to escape the sin and destruction always accompany a Godly Correction.
Remember if we dont pray so that the "BROther" can hear the voice of God and not ours we wont get the outcome God has established. There is roo. For growth, unlike flesh.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”Ephesians 2:8-9“for ‘everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’”
With all brotherly love, Pastor John is conflating two issues: correcting sin and judging one another based on spiritual growth. Sin is nowhere in the context of Romans 14-15, but rather spiritual habits, practices, and convictions. Judgment is not to be passed because someone else thinks they shouldn't eat meat sacrificed to idols (for example), otherwise it then becomes sin.
I went to a church leader to confess some issues in my marriage and went there with an open and honest heart. By the time we were half way in - I was called a liar because I used a word in its most common meaning instead of some new meaning that apparently is now in vogue. Then, when I stated that one cannot be called a liar over a difference of opinion on a definition... the counselor called me an arrogant jerk. I went there to own up to my behavior. I left there having to wrestle with forgiving the counselor. Some people just are not cut out to be pastors.
