Find Your Balance
Judge Not?
I was reading yesterday from the book Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did by Randy Newman. In the couple of pages I was reading he was talking about judging. Oftentimes people will quote Matthew 7:1 if they feel a Christian is trying to talk to them about a possible wrong-doing, or if they see someone headed down a bad path, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged." In Randy's book he spoke of the original wording used in this passage and that though it was translated to "judge" (and that is a close translation), it's really more of a "condemning judgment" that was being referred to. Jesus Himself has pointed out sin. It isn't that we shouldn't call out sin or try to help someone if we see them going in a wrong direction. We should however not judge others from a place of self-righteousness, but out of love and concern. In Luke 6:42 Jesus says, "How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take th...
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