Thinking of the readings that you paired here specifically, this sounds like a friendship within the church.
To question, challenge, exhort, or play the devil's advocate for a wise man, a fellow child of God, is a way to struggle through God's Word together. If you do the same thing with someone who does not know or care for God 's will, you end up looking like a jerk sometimes.
Back to the friend, if you love someone you will risk upsetting them for their good?
Thinking of the readings that you paired here specifically, this sounds like a friendship within the church.
To question, challenge, exhort, or play the devil's advocate for a wise man, a fellow child of God, is a way to struggle through God's Word together. If you do the same thing with someone who does not know or care for God 's will, you end up looking like a jerk sometimes.
Back to the friend, if you love someone you will risk upsetting them for their good?