There is often a wrong impression that we give men especially when it comes to God.

We simply tell them God does not keep count of how many times they go wrong or are found lacking before Him, He is merciful and gracious and always ready to forgive. In the perception of desiring to keep all we gain and everyone under the guise of Christianity it works. Yet in the astounding walk of true Christian Faith it is not. We do have power that is given by God; to give us the chances we deserve but it is important also to know; He keeps count.

Yes! He does keep count and one has to know in advance

The Principle of Following and Christian Correction are those teachings that when you are done with you should know or you will soon find self grappling and scrambling for a lost forte. Only to find you have ousted and maxed out your options. Having that power one has to not just toy with it; the ideal being here you will learn that there are people that Christ outlined that they should not be followed up. That is, in the case of their fall, it is viable to let them stay the distance and work their issues to a repentant return or to end outside His will. Yet one more paining thing is that though not often told, those who would defiantly walk away even if they return; it is not to their place of their former privilege and gifts; but to a life without reward.

So, as much as this Principle is about teaching us how to do follow up work for those who have already been established; or the lost sheep, meaning there should have been a sure walk with God first before they are lost as the converted to God. So, lost sheep should not just get the relevance of humanity but the ideal that one has been a sheep of the fold before and has lost their hold on their salvation by any of the three possible means. Then one would thus understand there is a possibility of one losing their salvation and if lost there is mitigation and that mitigation is conditional.