Love is corrective: Difference between revisions

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:''...Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Mt 18:15–17, 21–22.</ref>

When discipline is done in love, the primary focus is not on correction but on restoration. That is why Paul says this about the attributes of love:

:''If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing...

:''Love never gives up.

:''Love cares more for others than for self.

:''Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.

:''Love doesn’t strut,

:''Doesn’t have a swelled head,

:''Doesn’t force itself on others,

:''Isn’t always “me first,”

:''Doesn’t fly off the handle,

:''Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,

:''Doesn’t revel when others grovel,

:''Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

:''Puts up with anything,

:''Trusts God always,

:''Always looks for the best,

:''Never looks back,

:''But keeps going to the end.

:''...But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.<ref>Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), 1 Co 13:2, 4–7, 13.</ref>

Paul says that we are through love to serve one another.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ga 5:13.</ref>

through love serve one another.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ga 5:13.

=Quotes of William Branham=