Think of the woman thrown at His feet, called an adulteress.SO when JESUS himself corrected folks , He was not showing them HIS LOVE . This is the stuff i am talking about .
We need to learn the AGAPE TRUE LOVE FROM GOD and not what we THINK is the love .
SO by correction none can see the love of Christ . Then even peter , paul , james , jude and others are in dire trouble .
Watch how peter evangelized , watch how paul did . If correctiing error is not Christ like , then the JESUS of the bible
and the apostels were not christ like . DO YOU SEE the problem yet . THIS is why i constantly urge and stress that we all
just return to bible reading .
I think we need to be sensitive to know whether we should approach a person this way or that way. I think there is a dynamic that happens as we are in a real life situation that doesn't happen during discussions.
When we are confronted with a person in any sort of sin, the Holy Spirit within us directs us towards how we should address that person, and this may not be how we've previously thought that we should or would.
James 3:17-18 KJV
17) But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18) And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
When we see how Christ in me responds to a need, we'll see how this fits His love, and His Word, and we will be changed by the experience, coming to know Him a little better, becoming like Him a little more.
I completely agree, we need to be reading the Bible through and through, over and over, life long. So that when these times come, we have that body of knowledge - God's Word - to guide us, and confirm whether this, or that, is of the Lord.
Much love!