1. Have you ever had a serious medical operation? How did it feel at the time? What were the longer-term effects? 2. What might have happened to you if you didn’t have that operation? In some ways, confronting sin in others’ lives—what we’ve referred to as corrective discipline—is like surgery. It’s painful. It takes a skillful hand. No one looks forward to it. Yet the health of the whole church requires it. And when we obey God and discipline one