Loving Correction

It is always a big challenge in heading a Christian group to correct fellow brethren. I'm always caught in this dilemma and often I was in the frontline. I received highly praises for my sound judgement and courage to fight what is right. Nevertheless they don't know that the battle I'm also dealing within. My new household like any other group has a problem on cohabitation. I have no apprehension following the guidelines to know them carefully by asking specified things during Christian Life Program. The problem with this guideline is that many discussion group leaders have this apprehension on how to ask this specific question of cohabitation. I understand that is their personal lives and we may be accused of mingling with their affairs. But if you are really re-born Christians you would think of this as a calling of love. Correcting others is also showing your concerns to them and I always emphasize that correcting doesn't mean to force them do what is right. It is just letting them aware period and the ball is theirs. We should not complicate things like these especially defining the passing the ball because if these people decide to journey with us we always have the opportunity to influence them given the chances in which we should grab immediately. Yes loving correction needs timing. A delayed reaction because of fear of rejection I think is self glorification. Correction may be accepted and may be not. A missed opportunity is simply letting the person commit a sinful life without validating if s/he knows it is a sin and wrong. But above all, it is their decision on how to live their lives after the correction. Let our conscience be clear that every Sunday Mass we can face the Lord that lessen our sins "things that we failed to do." This is between them and God anyway.