10.20- We must have the courage to tell the truth.

 10.20-

We must have the courage to tell the truth.  This is protection for the good of all concerned.  There is a temptation to want to have our ears tickled, but it doesn't work.  Guidance and  health mean that we tell each other the truth.  We hear the truth and communicate it to each other. Then we colaborate and come to a decision there some power in the decision that is arrived at based on truth.  The end does not justify the means.  We must be people who pursue the truth and stay committed to it.

Matthew 18.

15 “If your brother or sister[b] sins,[c] go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’[d] 17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

18 “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be[e] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[f] loosed in heaven.

19 “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”