* Paul mentions three types of unhealthy believers and how we are to help them:

* 1) Lazy - we are to warn them.

* Laziness refuses to do what it knows to do because it lacks discipline to do it.

* Lazy people move toward comfort and away from pain because they focus on the cost of the reward instead of the reward.

* Laziness leads to lukewarmness.

* 2) Timid - we are to encourage them.

* Encourage means to “make courageous.”

* Courage is better caught than taught. It’s contagious.

* Testimony makes us courageous.

* 3) Weak - we are to take tender care of them.

* We are to first empathize with them, and then gently instruct them.

* New believers fit into this category.

* On this foundation Paul tells us to be patient with everyone.

* Patience is a passion that lasts because we refuse to take matters into our own hands - we trust God with the results.