WHEN TO STOP AND WHEN TO START JUDGING
“It would be well if we were to stop judging people and churches by our own prejudices and preferences; and if we were to begin to give thanks for any person and any church who can bring people nearer to God, even if their methods are not the methods that suit us.” I read this one morning last week. It is a great truth, but I think a little modification and elaboration for the sake of clarification might be in order here.
Our exercise of judgment isn’t condemned in the above-quoted statement or in the Bible: “He that is spir