First, one must watch himself to be holy, lest his rebuke be useless.
One must rebuke immediately and not keeping it for the sake of being nice-guy hypocrite, nor for some kind of "insurance" should one face his own chastening in the future.
The reason America and the once greatly Christian influenced Europe today see not many persecutions is because the preachers today take it upon themselves as saviors, as if thriving to do better than Jesus, better love, better niceness, while living in denial of lordship at the same time.
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