Confrontation

[Classik]

Should we rebuke openly or confront or chastise or "whatever you wish to call it" a Christian when he or she does bad? If yes....to what degree?

To some, pastors are untouchable when it comes to confrontation.

 

[iLOVE]

Jesus says it like this, "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." Matthew 7:5 NIV

Make sure you are not self righteous when you approach people!

 

[Deborah13]

You know I don't think that as a lay person with no positional authority it is my right to accuse someone of sin or correct them about it in a church or group. That doesn't mean I haven't done it or been mighty tempted to, sometimes I come really close.
If there is a serious problem in a church situation, I believe I should take it to the ones with authority, like the moderators here in the forum.
But I shouldn't be nit picking or be a pansy, either. Sometimes we just have to put on our big boy panties and get on with what's really important. Sometimes I'm guilty of not ignoring what I should.
I also have this thing about standing up for other people when I feel they have been wronged and don't keep my mouth shut when I probably should. 2

 

[Classik]

And in some cases keeping silent when we should have said something makes us as guilty

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Should we rebuke openly or confront or chastise or "whatever you wish to call it" a Christian when he or she does bad? If yes....to what degree?

Jesus says to confront, and shows there's a good reason for it:
15 "If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. (Matthew 18:15 NASB)

But he also says what to think about that person if they don't get won over by your confrontation:
17"If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector." (Matthew 18:16-17 NASB)

IOW, if they reject reconciliation consider them unsaved.
We show that we belong to the truth when we can speak the truth to each other and we learn from it, not hating the person for confronting us with our wrong.

To some, pastors are untouchable when it comes to confrontation.

But I've noticed they are that way because some in the church protect them that way, not knowing what the Bible says to do with a sinning elder:

19 Do not receive an accusation against an elder except * on the basis of two or three witnesses. 20 Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning. 21 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality." (1 Timothy 5:19-21 NASB)