Restoration On Fire With Doug Philp

A good friend recently asked ... "when did we go from saying the truth and coming alongside people..or pulling them aside...to deciding it's better to say nothing at all because that's what love would do. Love doesn't "offend" people." After doing some study in God's word the following was my answer. One facet of true biblical love is that it "does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth" (1Cor 13:6). Setting aside, 'love doesn't offend,' here is an exciting verse tucked away in 1 Thessalonians 2... "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?" - v19 The context is that Paul wrote 'how we had exhorted, and comforted, and charged everyone of you, as a father does his own children, that you would walk worthy of God... (vs. 11,12)' and then this in v.13, '...because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also