D. How to do it? With gentleness and humility.
Broken believers need spiritual believers who will come alongside in order to mend them. This process must be done with gentleness, which is a fruit of the Spirit. The King James Version uses the word “meekly” which has the idea of doing something quietly and with enormous kindness. When a friend is down you don’t announce it to the world. You don’t try to ruin his reputation but instead you touch with tenderness.
Paul told Timothy to “gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance, leading them to a knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 2:25). Romans 2:4 tells us that it’s God’s kindness that leads a person to repentance.
This scripture gives us an example of how we should behave toward others.
Isaiah 42:3 He will not crush the weakest reed or put out a flickering candle.
It’s not always easy to do this many times we can be judgmental instead of being merciful. The saying is true ‘There but by the grace of God go I’. If we don’t allow ourselves to feel the pain of someone’s sin and approach people with tears in our eyes, then we either do not love the sinner sufficiently, or we don’t hate the sin enough. Paul chose the terrain of tenderness when he wrote in 2 Corinthians 10:1: “By the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you…”
Once again, Jesus is our model and our motivation. In Matthew 11:29, Jesus refers to Himself as “gentle and humble in heart.”
Let’s not allow the devil win any of these battles to cause Christians to fall away but let us be agents of restoration someone’s eternal destiny could be at stake.
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