And whatever the “rod” is for you, you have to be willing to use it because when our children disobey, they need to be confronted, corrected and restored.
Matthew 18:15, If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. (NIV)
Matthew 18:16, But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ (NIV)
It’s clear that God is so committed to holiness and righteousness that one of His priorities for His church is the recognition and confrontation of sin among its members.
“I have a lot of griefs about the state of the church today, but maybe the greatest grief is the unholiness of the church and its accommodation to the unsaved.”