Recently in several classes we have discussed "not judging others." We are told we will be judged with the same mercy we judge others. Since we will be judged with the same mercy we judge our judging must have some affect on the judged.
When Jesus had John write to those seven churches, he did not instruct or even encourage the "obedient" to leave the "disobedient?" In his letter to the Romans, Paul wrote: "Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand." James wrote: "There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?" In each case the intended audience was people who had been immersed for the remission of their sins.
The non-instrumental division of the Church of Christ has many divisions that refuse to associate with each other. By refusing to assemble with other divisions isn't one division showing they think the other(s) are wrong and therefore "lost." When one group of people immersed for the forgiveness of their sins refuses to assemble with another group or people immersed for the forgiveness of their sins aren't they judging them?
What is the judging we are not to do?
Thanks, John Jenkins
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"Telling shoeless people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps is not only cruel, it's also pointless."
Martin Luther King
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