{
  "id": "MTOM-0019",
  "title": "Modern Church Ethics of Never Having To Listen To Anyone If You Declare They are Not Saying It In Love",
  "slug": "modern-church-ethics-of-never-having-to-listen-to-anyone-if-you-declare-they-are-not-sayin",
  "url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/modern-traditions-of-men/modern-church-ethics-of-never-having-to-listen-to-anyone-if-you-declare-they-are-not-sayin/",
  "category": "Church Order and Discipline",
  "severity": "2",
  "summary": "The phrase \"not said in love\" can become a shield against all correction. Biblical love governs manner, but it does not make personal taste the judge of truth.",
  "diagnosis": "Sometimes correction is wrongly harsh. But sometimes the hearer calls truth unloving because the truth has touched pride. Scripture requires humility before rebuke.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Prov 12:1",
    "Prov 15:31-32",
    "Gal 4:16",
    "2 Tim 4:2",
    "Heb 3:13"
  ],
  "key_terms": [
    "elencho [reprove]",
    "parakaleo [exhort]",
    "tapeinos [humble]",
    "paideia [discipline, instruction]"
  ],
  "related_slugs": [
    "appeasing-the-fleshy-members",
    "believe-and-live-in-material-prosperity",
    "no-church-discipline",
    "prosperity-doctrine",
    "church-growth-measured-mainly-by-numbers-budget-and-expansion",
    "private-christianity-my-personal-relationship-with-jesus-detached-from-the-church"
  ],
  "translation_tooltips": "NET Bible local tooltip data",
  "status": "published_package_draft"
}