True love recognizes that only the truth can make us free from the bondage of sin and prompts us to speak in spite of the circumstances. At the same time, we need to be very careful about how we approach our criticism of others. We need to be sure of the facts. Human beings are so prone to misunderstand one another. We need to watch our attitudes in the way we administer correction to others.
Reproofs are hard to take in any case.
What might have resulted in the restoration of beloved brethren is thus provoked into all-out warfare. Let us all apply these three important principles in our loving efforts to deal with error. Again we emphasize that you need to read the previous articles in this series if you wish to make sense of this one. We further showed that the denominational concept of the church originated in a corruption of local church organization which culminated in what we now know as the Roman Catholic Church. In the last article we demonstrated that this flawed concept was carried over into the Protestant Reformation as well as into the American Restoration Movement of the 19th Century.