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Discipline: The Love That Trains and Confronts

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Michael Foster
Jun 13, 2025
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Discipline isn’t a dirty word—it’s a form of love.

God disciplines His children (Hebrews 12), and He commands the church to do the same. But in today’s world, discipline is either abused or abandoned. Love, we’re told, is soft. It’s endlessly affirming, always gentle, never confrontational. And discipline? That’s harsh. That’s what angry, authoritarian p…

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