Followers of Christ were called Christians. Do our lives demonstrate we are followers of Christ? Christian is not something one becomes separate from following Jesus. Does the world know we are followers of Jesus? When you look at others do we know if they are followers of Jesus. . .or not?
The story in John of the woman caught in adultery tells us that it is one thing for a sinless person to say "sin no more" and quite another for people like us---with logs in our eyes to say it.The story should also remind us her accusers were in no position to judge her; that they were as much sinners as she. Jesus did not condemn her. Jesus told her to abstain from sinful behavior in the future. To judge another one must be without sin and if one is without sin one won't judge.
Followers of Jesus are to love not condemn. Followers of Jesus are to do things as Jesus would do them.
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