Thus, we must work for our neighbor with forbearance, patience, and mercy. Obviously, one way to do this is to find out all we can about what our neighbor understands about the topic of instruction. Then we can patiently work at our neighbor’s level and bring him slowly to the level of understanding which God has been so merciful to have given us. (It may even happen that it is we ourselves who are ignorant of the truth and our neighbor actually ends up instructing us.)