Don’t Judge Me

(Reposting this from a friends blog, http://christopherlazo.com, he is a solid man of God I desire to be like)

Don’t judge me!?
This is the battle cry of the defensive Christian (it’s been mine many times).

But the situation Jesus was addressing in Matthew 7 seems to be in regards to people who make hypocritical, ad hominem attacks against unbelieving people. It mentions nothing about judging other Christians.

On the contrary, Christians are supposed to judge each other (albeit in a loving way). To abstain from making a needed judgment towards fellow Christians who are in sin is labeled “arrogant” by Paul (1 Cor. 5).

We got to watch each others backs.

(…lovingly, in case I didn’t mention that)