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Reproof is unavoidable. God__ Word demands it when a brother falls into open sin. The practice of discipline in the congregation begins in the smallest circles. Where defection from God__ Word in doctrine or life imperils the family fellowship and with it the whole congregation, the word of admonition and rebuke must be ventured. Nothing can be more cruel than the tenderness that consigns another to his sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe rebuke that calls a brother back from the path of sin. It is a ministry of mercy, an ultimate offer of genuine fellowship, when we allow nothing but God__ Word to stand between us, judging and succoring. Then it is not we who are judging; God alone judges, and God__ judgment is helpful and healing. Ultimately, we have no charge but to serve our brother, never to set ourselves above him, and we serve him even when we must speak the judging and dividing Word of God to him, even when, in obedience to God, we must break off fellowship with him. We must know that it is not our human love which makes us loyal to the other person, but God__ love which breaks its way through to him only through judgment. Just because God__ Word judges, it serves the person. He who accepts the ministry of God__ judgment is helped.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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