Theme: We ought to receive instruction from God's word as an appeal from a loving father.

Theme: It is far better to suffer wrong, just as Jesus did for us, than to sue our fellow Christian.

Theme: The church is to be careful to discipline its own members—and leave the judgment of those who are outside to God.

Theme: As Christ’s ‘unleavened’ people, we must not be tolerant of the 'leaven' of sin in our Christian fellowship.

Theme: In Christ, we are to love each other by focusing on the "eternal" instead of the "external" qualities