truth and love

My word teaches you to speak the truth in love. Can you see that I did this myself? I told the woman caught in adultery to go and sin no more. To the woman at the well I said that she did not understand true worship, correcting her understanding and saying that salvation is of the Jews. These were loving statements but they were not affirmations to proceed without correction. Can you see how both elements are necessary? For the people you encounter are free and their responses are voluntary. Can you present the truth in a way that is so loving that they will voluntarily choose it?