QotD: Confrontation

Here's a quote I saw posted from an old friend.  I know I would do well to heed those words both as one who confronts and as one who needs to be confronted.

USAF Academy Chapel

But will I confront a brother in Christ in love with the word of God?

Will I drop my defenses and listen when confronted by a brother in Christ whether he shows any grace or not?

A discipline sorely missing and poorly practiced in the Church today.

Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation, regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong. Just as what we may call holiness without love is not God's kind of holiness, so also what we may call love without holiness, is not God's kind of love...A false spirit of accommodation is sweeping the world as well as the Church, including those who claim the label of evangelical.

Francis A. Schaeffer