Natural Response To Someone In Sin

“Gentleness should be our natural response when we see a brother or sister ensnared in sin….We are also free to be gentle because we have given up any hope that human pressure, power, or logic can change the heart.  It is never the loudness of our voice, the power of our words, the drama of the moment, the creativity of our illustrations, the strength of our vocabulary, the specter of our threats, or the grandeur of our gestures that causes as turning in people.  Gentleness flows from knowing where our power lies.  God can use whispered words to produce thunderous conviction in a heart.”

Tripp, “Speaking Redemptively,” pg. 18