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46. I carefully help to remove moral specks, sins from the lives of fellow believers. (7:5)<\/strong><\/h3>

\u201cJudge\u201d (krino<\/em>) in Mt. 7:1-5 has many shades of meaning, e.g. separate, choose - that must be decided by the context. Mt 7:1-5 is one of the most misquoted, misapplied and misinterpreted passages in the Bible. It certainly does not mean that we are not to judge in the common sense for Mt. 7:6 tells us to judge between dogs and pigs and we are commanded to judge in many other Scriptures.<\/p>

The command is against judgmentalism, a condemning spirit that springs from a self-righteous heart and shows itself as censorious, hypercritical and fault- finding, generally of another\u2019s motives. The antonym for judgmentalism is generous, big-hearted, accepting.<\/p>

Brotherly love forbids censoriousness and judgmentalism but does not excuse us from helping remove a speck from a brother\u2019s or sister\u2019s eye. \u201cA bit of dirt in his\/her eye is, after all, rightly called a \u2018foreign\u2019 body. It doesn\u2019t belong there. It is always alien, usually painful and sometimes dangerous. To leave it there, and make no attempt to remove it, would hardly be consistent with brotherly love.\u201d (Stott, 179)<\/p> Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

46. I carefully help to remove moral specks, sins from the lives of fellow believers. (7:5)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cJudge\u201d (krino<\/em>) in Mt. 7:1-5 has many shades of meaning, e.g. separate, choose – that must be decided by the context. Mt 7:1-5 is one of the most misquoted, misapplied and misinterpreted passages in the Bible. It certainly does not mean that we are not to judge in the common sense for Mt. 7:6 tells us to judge between dogs and pigs and we are commanded to judge in many other Scriptures.<\/p>\n

The command is against judgmentalism, a condemning spirit that springs from a self-righteous heart and shows itself as censorious, hypercritical and fault- finding, generally of another\u2019s motives. The antonym for judgmentalism is generous, big-hearted, accepting.<\/p>\n

Brotherly love forbids censoriousness and judgmentalism but does not excuse us from helping remove a speck from a brother\u2019s or sister\u2019s eye. \u201cA bit of dirt in his\/her eye is, after all, rightly called a \u2018foreign\u2019 body. It doesn\u2019t belong there. It is always alien, usually painful and sometimes dangerous. To leave it there, and make no attempt to remove it, would hardly be consistent with brotherly love.\u201d (Stott, 179)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-som-review"],"yoast_head":"\n125. 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