Have you blown it big time? Have you committed a sin that you think has put you on the sideline forever? According to Jesus, you have hope. Chip shares that no matter how far you have fallen, you can reset your boundaries, beginning today, and get back in the game.

Main Points Two extremes!

Exhibit A: Passive Indifference
Exhibit B: Painful Insensitivity

Review: The teaching of Jesus. --Matthew 18:15-17

Step 1: Private conference --Matthew 18:15
Step 2: Small group confrontation --Matthew 18:16
Step 3: Public disclosure Matthew 18:17a
Step 4: Public exclusion --Matthew 18:17b

The Question: How do we restore those who have fallen?

The Answer: Galatians 6:1-2

What does Galatians 6:1-2 mean?

The Situation: A fellow Christian is “caught” (overcome) by a sin.
The Command: The spiritually mature are to restore this believer.
The Method: Gentleness is to characterize our attitude and the process.
The Warning: Restoration is a dangerous process even for the mature.
The Summary: “Bearing one another’s burdens” involves the arduous task of confrontation, forgiveness, comfort, and loving fallen believers back to a position of fellowship and former fruitfulness. (see 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 & Luke 15:11-32)

Conclusion: We serve the God of “second chances.”

We will all “fall” to some degree at some time.
We must resist our fears and insecurities that lead to passive indifference.
We must resist our desire for justice and self-righteous tendencies that lead to painful insensitivity.
We must restore, not “shoot our wounded.”
How can we fail to do for another what Christ has done for us?

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Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.

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Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.

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