Unoffendable
1. *GO *TO THEM, *NOT *AROUND THEM.
Matthew 18:15 – 15 “If your brother sins against you, go tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.
Proverbs 19:11 – 11 A person’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
Galatians 6:1 – 1 Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so that you also won’t be tempted.
2. WIDEN THE *CIRCLE, NOT THE *CONFLICT.
Matthew 18:16 – 16 But if he won’t listen, take one or two others with you, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every fact may be established.
3. GO TO THE *FAMILY, NOT THE *FEED.
Matthew 18:17 – 17 If he doesn’t pay attention to them, tell the church., If he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like a Gentile and a tax collector to you.
Matthew 18:18 – 18 Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed in heaven.
Matthew 18:19-20 – 19 Again, truly I tell you, if two of you on earth agree about any matter that you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.”