Cancel culture has exposed real harm that was being ignored—but something’s gone wrong when there’s no proportionality, no path back, and we find ourselves enjoying the pile-on. In this episode, we dig into Matthew 18 and discover that Jesus takes sin seriously (there’s a process for confrontation with real consequences) while orienting everything toward restoration (”you have gained your brother”). We explore how Christians can resist both the temptation to dismiss all accountability as persecution and the temptation to join the mob and call it justice. Three experiments—the log check, the restoration question, and the private confrontation—help us pursue accountability and forgiveness as partners rather than opposites.

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