The alternative to discipline is disaster
Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.
The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.