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Discipline and Punishment – what’s the difference?

Discipline and Punishment – what’s the difference?

What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness? 1 Corinthians 4: 21 Maybe you heard one of your parents say it or maybe you’ve uttered these words yourself as you prepared to discipline a child- “This is going to...
Discipline and Punishment – what’s the difference?

Evaluation and criticism

But with me, it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore do not pronounce...
Discipline and Punishment – what’s the difference?

You and Ya’ll

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.  1 Corinthians 3: 16-17 When I saw the word...
Discipline and Punishment – what’s the difference?

Rewards and regrets

Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If...
Discipline and Punishment – what’s the difference?

A firm foundation

 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1...
Discipline and Punishment – what’s the difference?

Play your role and stay in your lane.

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he...