1. How to Confront Believers
1 Timothy 5:1-2

2. 1 Timothy 5:1-2
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

3. 1 Timothy 5:1-2
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

4. 1 Timothy 5:1-2
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
“rebuke” : epi-plesso, cf Rev 8:12

5. 1 Timothy 5:1-2
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
“rebuke” : epi-plesso, cf Rev 8:12
You may not do violence to the brother or sister you are confronting.

6. How to Confront another Believer

7. How to Confront another Believer
(1) Do not rebuke… but encourage.

8. How to Confront another Believer
(1) Do not rebuke… but encourage.
“encourage”: parakleo

9. How to Confront another Believer
(1) Do not rebuke… but encourage.
“encourage”: parakleo
to exhort, entreat, persuade, correct, appeal

10. How to Confront another Believer
(1) Do not rebuke… but encourage.
“encourage”: parakleo
to exhort, entreat, persuade, correct, appeal
para: alongside
kaleo: call

11. How to Confront another Believer
(1) Do not rebuke… but encourage.
“encourage”: parakleo
to exhort, entreat, persuade, correct, appeal
para: alongside
kaleo: call
The choice is in your hands.

12. Godly Confrontation is Costly

13. Godly Confrontation is Costly
but it is worth it
2 Thes 3:14-15
2 Tim 2:24
Gal 6:1
2 Cor 2:4-8 (after excommunication!)

14. Godly encouragement must include:
Exhorting:

15. Godly encouragement must include:
Exhorting: Speaking in God’s Name, with the Spirit’s power, to lay claim on the will and action of the person

16. Godly encouragement must include:
Exhorting: Speaking in God’s Name, with the Spirit’s power, to lay claim on the will and action of the person
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. Jas 5:19-20

17. Godly encouragement must include:
Comforting: Pointing them to hope in God and His Salvation

18. Godly encouragement must include:
Comforting: Pointing them to hope in God and His Salvation
the LORD comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song. Isa 51:3

19. How to Confront Believers!
ENCOURAGE!
= Exhort + Comfort
It will be costly, but they are infinitely valuable! God has purchased them with his own blood! (Act 20:28)