Disclaimer for previous post.

I think we're very much responsible for calling people to repentance. But I think how that happens should look different with people that follow Jesus than it does with people that don't.

I think most of the implications for the post are for the context of a community following Jesus together. That's the context where it makes sense to speak directly about sin directly as an issue of disobedience, rebellion, or tangible trust and love for Jesus. Jesus is always the most direct, blunt, and harsh with the religious people; his approach is very different for people that don't know him or God.

With that crowd, he shows them a side of God they haven't seen before; a God that loves them, cares about who they are, looks on their plights with compassion. It's in light of this new notion of God that there comes a call to give up the sin. If we're even going to think about addressing the sin of someone that doesn't follow Jesus, it better be accompanied (and preceded) by interactions that are characterized by the preceding.

It's in the relationships where we have already claimed to understand, know, trust, and experience some of God's love for us but are still choosing to turn to our sin instead of Jesus we need to be willing to identify and call each other out of that sin. The majority of that post is meant primarily for the context of a community following Jesus.