I fall short of God's goal for forgiveness. Someone in the church had Corinth had been disciplined. As a result of the discipline, they had repented. B. Next Paul gives us the steps of reconciliation. We've already learned quite a bit about this part of the process.
Tonight let's focus on the other steps.
Comfort or Help a. The passage says, comfort him. The person shouldn't viewed as a second class citizen. To do so is not to forgive, but hold their sins against them forever. Note the example of the Prodigal's father.