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Tuesday... There is more to correcting.

2 Corinthian 2:8 (NLT), "So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him." Tuesday... There is more to correcting. For some, it is so easy to correct. They can have an I am better than you attitude and that definitely isn't good. But there are times that we need to correct and here in the church in Corinth, Paul in his first letter had to encourage the church to do some correcting of a man they loved but who needed to be corrected because he was hurting the church. He was a definite problem. Sometimes because of love we want to let things slide because of the hurt correcting would cause. Yes, there can be pain. Here in his second letter Paul says in 2:5-6, "I am not overstating it when I say that the man who caused all the trouble hurt all of you more than he hurt me. Most of you opposed him, and that was punishment enough." As I said, for some it is easy to correct but for others it isn't. But there are times when we have to correct and they did and now Paul co...