DEFINITION
"the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake"
"punishment intended to reform, improve or rehabilitate"
Introduction
"All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, refuting error, for correcting and training in Christian life. Through Scripture the man of God is made expert & thoroughly equipped for every good work."
Some reasons why we are afraid of correction
SOCIETY'S EXPECTATION:
We are evaluated in terms of what we know and have achieved.
It is painful to have our failures and shortcomings pointed out.
self-reliance & independence
Attitude of HESITATION in accepting someone's opinion or judgment
What do we do?
We hide our faults.
We cover up.
We argue when corrected.
How should we regard
correction?
Correction is not a sign of lifelessness and legalism in a Christian group.
"He who loves discipline, loves knowledge; foolish is he who rejects correction."
(Proverbs 12:1)
"The fool considers his way right while the wise man listens to advice."
(Proverbs 12:!5)
FOR SOMETHING WE HAVE DONE WRONG
requires:
-repentance
-asking forgiveness
-change
requires only a RESOLVE to do it better next time :)
PRACTICAL ASPECTS
OF CORRECTION
II. In case of disagreements
If it involves something seriously wrong:
III. Correction works in a variety of pastoral situations
CORRECTION IS OFFERED IN THE SPIRIT OF HELPLESSNESS
In serious cases, talk to his household head or unit head.
Overcome fears about giving correction
CONCLUSION
Correction is a very important pastoral tool
Correction is done out of love
CANDIDATE A:
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses, he also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 Martinis a day.
CANDIDATE B:
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps all day, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every morning.
CANDIDATE C:
He is a decorated war hero. He doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never committed adultery.
A. Franklin Roosevelt
C. Adolf Hitler
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Look out to your own behavior and attitudes
Strategy for learning correction
Be willing to learn
Learn to handle anger
Focus on the goals of pastoral care
EXPERIENCE of being laughed at because of our mistakes
QUESTION#2
Secular society's expectation:
Correction is associated with rejection.
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CORRECTION:
A Pastoral Tool
should be simple and straightforward
when giving correction, expect brother to repent or resolve to do better
Give correction in a way that will help a person to CHANGE (and not as form of judgment only)
When a person fails to accept correction, the two parties should ask a mature Christian to mediate
"If your brother or sister has sinned against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are in private, and if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
If you are not listened to, take with you one or two others so the case may be decided by the evidence of two or three witnesses."
In case there is still no apparent remedy or solution, one of the parties may have to take forbearance
Matthew 18:15-16
Context:
Christian personal relationships
SCRIPTURE SAYS:
In CFC we have a committed relationship
It is foolish to reject correction
It appears whenever Christians see each other as brothers
and sisters.
The experience in most cultures, however, is RESISTANCE of people to correction
With God's help, we must OVERCOME OUR DISLIKE for correction
...At the bottom of this is FEAR.
B. Winston Churchill
Don't expect to be always corrected nicely.
RESPONSE TO CORRECTION
For something done poorly
Where we don't have a pastoral responsibility for a person, we still have a responsibility for love and care for our brethren in CFC
WHERE WE HAVE PASTORAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR SOMEONE,
correction becomes one of the many pastoral tools to help a person grow in his relationship with the Lord and other people.
If the person we are correcting is in authority over us, we should give our correction respectively, leaving judgment of any change up to the person.
CORRECTION
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