On the Authority to Correct: Proximity, Relationship, and the Ethics of Rebuke

Who Gave You the Right to Correct Me? Why could Nathan confront King David, but a stranger online can’t condemn a pastor they’ve never met? We trace every major rebuke in Scripture and find a pattern: real correction always comes through relationship, proximity, or clear divine commissioning — never from a distance. A look at what that means for how we talk about leaders and each other today.