What does Scripture say about repentance and maintaining relationships within the home and in the church?

Sam Waldron explains in this video that Luke 17:3-4 tells us the divine recipe for maintaining healthy relationships in the home and in the church. It states that repentance looks like a husband and a wife confessing and forgiving sin to each other. It involves parents and children confessing sins to one another. It involves members of the church reconciling differences and disagreements between each other.

A husband should be able to admit where he was wrong. Repentance involves the confession of sin and the seeking of forgiveness. It 

Luke 17:3-4 (NKJV) - "Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him."



Let me ask what repentance looks like in the home. I think we have to say that it looks like what Luke 17, 3, and 4 describes. Luke 17, 3, and 4 tells us the divine recipe for maintaining healthy relationships between brothers in the world. And it says, if your brother's sin against you, rebuke him, If you repent, forgive him. He sins against you seven times in a day and returns and says I repent, forgive him.

Now, I think in the home and in the church as well, this is what repentance looks like. It looks like, it looks like people carrying out Luke 17 3 & 4. It looks like people, It looks like a husband coming to his wife and saying, you know, I came home the other day and things seemed all right, but you just kind of snapped at me. You spoke harshly, and in fact, one of the things she said wasn't even true. And that's wrong.

And it looks like the wife saying you're right scripture says I was wrong I sinned against you will you forgive me Same thing with regard to parents and children. Sometimes the only way to maintain any authority in the home is for a dad to come to his children and say something like, you know, We watched that television program the other night on TV together. I see it now in retrospect, we should never watch that TV program. It was not something we should have been doing at all. I was wrong.

I sinned against you. Will you please forgive me? So it looks like, what it looks like is the confession of sins and seeking forgiveness. You