{"id":7494,"date":"2022-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/brotherly-restoration\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:29:51","slug":"brotherly-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/brotherly-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Brotherly Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were in our Church yard. I overheard him say to his friend who was with him: \u201cthe Truth is not a point of view\u201d. I liked to know about the eloquence that was going on in the yard. I approached the two friends. They were talking about brotherly restoration. He, that is, the author of the phrase, wanted us to expose the truth to the brothers, whatever the wounds inflicted by revealing it. The Church is a pure virgin, so she does not tolerate negligent members. You must tell the negligent that he is negligent, you must warn him, reprimand him\u2026 As for the other, he was saying that our utmost responsibility in the Church is to care for those whose sins have been proven to us. How can a sinner remain confident that he is loved? This is the spirit of the Truth in which is our salvation. What I have heard was enough for me. I left them, heading to my office. Who says that the restoration work is based on one position rather than the other? There remains wisdom alone to teach us to exalt the right standpoint at the right time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were in our Church yard. I overheard him say to his friend who was with him: \u201cthe Truth is not a point of view\u201d. I liked to know about the eloquence that was going on in the yard. I approached the two friends. They were talking about brotherly restoration. He, that is, the author ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[3029,3030,3031,2851,1900],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-brotherly-restoration","tag-church-discipline","tag-love-and-correction","tag-spiritual-responsibility","tag-truth-in-orthodoxy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7796,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}