Importance of openness to Correction, Learning, & Growth
Are you able to learn, take correction and do you appreciate it? Any true believer will embrace any believer coming alongside them to point out something or to caringly correct them esp in the area of sin. It gives the believer a chance to consider what was said, pray on it and see if there is truth to it so they can correct and grow in holiness. It shows that believer cared enough to come see you. That is a believer you can have good feelings about and appreciate. 🙂 If offense is taken among the brethren when truth is shared as lovingly and gently as possible, the issue is with the hardened heart of the offended party, not the believer who is attempting to godly helpfully advise, educate or correct as Scripture says to. It only seems offensive if you are prideful and not correctable. A believer should desire, be grateful for, and embrace being called out on error or sins, out of love, in order to grow in holiness, in truth, and to keep short sin accounts. Prove...