Recovering Confrontation | Matthew 18:15-20

Church discipline, confrontation, excommunication. These are words most of

us would rather not hear from the pulpit. But they come straight from Jesus

in Matthew 18:15-20, wrapped in love, not harshness.

This week we press into what it actually means for the church to pursue a

brother or sister caught in sin. We lean on Chrysostom and Augustine, we

draw the line between sin and personal preference, and we land on the

promise that when the church does this hard reconciling work, Christ

Himself has promised to be present. Because the church that confronts does

the very ministry of the Reconciler, and in doing so, we are conformed to

His image.