15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
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16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
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17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
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18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
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19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
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20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
- Confront when someone strays.
- Widen the circle when you need to.
- Appeal to the assembly when enough is enough.
- Jesus is with the church that does hard things.
- What does Jesus see when He looks at our church?
