I seem to get very disturbed of late, when I learn of fellow brothers and sisters taking the word of God lightly (by that, I mean when we do not obey and just do as we please or we rationalise away truth so that it would fit our circumstance, for eg. one of the most common is unequally yoked relationships, scripture is so clear on this, yet so many christians, good christians, wind up morally bankrupt because of that one compromise). I certainly hope I am not being self righteous or legalistic in any way. But I get affected by it and just feel great disappointment.

Perhaps its just God’s way of putting these burdens into my heart, that I would pray. But one thing I struggle all these while as a leader is, when do I speak up and correct. When is it a prompting to act upon and to correct/rebuke/admonish. And I struggle with confronting on such matters, maybe I lack the courage to confront, or it could be that I don’t act on it because I fear the rejection of the correction.

I personally believe that as a leader one has to step up to correct sheeps under their charge, and that once that correction is spoken, the ball is in their(believers) court to act upon it. In some sense, if there is inaction and continuation of sin, “blood is in their hands”. But if leaders fail to correct, then “blood is upon our hands”. Its also crucial that as leaders, we speak up, lest other believers get stumbled, or worse, follow suit. So why do I still fear correcting believers? Past experience maybe? Believers who leave because they don’t accept the truth.

Its terribly painful to see the sheeps leave the pen, headed towards the wolf’s den. And you know that they are heading that way of destruction. Yet its their personal decision and you cannot but helplessly watch them go down the wrong path!! Perhaps this is exactly how it feels like, the Father who sees his prodigal(wasteful) son walking away with his half of the inheritance. And the same Father who looks out daily from the fields hoping that the son would return.

Oh, that they would heed the call of scripture in the first place!

I only hope they would obey God and do the right things.