The new people are not there to substantiate our prejudices, but to bring new objectivity as God gives them spiritual insights. Again, the emphasis is on listening. God wants us to strive to understand what is being communicated. The risk is greater now, and it always must be remembered that the motivation remains redemptive. Although moving into the group process is scary, it does improve the attention level.
Restoration takes nurturing.
And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. Now we move into the heavy stuff. But at this level we are talking only about 1 percent of the cases. We must remember that in Jesus' time, a structured local church didn't exist. The organism did not yet have the form it would take in the Book of Acts and the Epistles.