Being Judgemental: Part 2.

I used to attend a church where people didn't understand how to properly be judgemental. There were a few people in the church who felt the need to constantly correct everyone else. This bred two problems: #1, that the people who were doing the correcting alienated others by taking on that "holier than thou" attitude, and #2, that the people who were being corrected didn't feel they could correct the sins of the first group. The people being judgemental were sinning as well, because they were starting gossip and rumors, and preventing those people they didn't like from working in the higher tiers of the church's organizational structure.

The church has since mostly fallen apart, save for those few people who were correcting everyone else, and a handful of people who for some reason like to be pawns in that kind of environment. I did gleam something useful from this experience, however: in a church, one person can't be doing all the correcting.

After all, if one person did all the correcting, that person would have to be as good as Jesus in order not to totally screw up everyone else. The Walk with Christ in a church is meant to be a group effort - everyone corrects everyone. If a church can't foster that kind of attitude, then it tends to fall into the one-man model, and it takes on the sins of whatever man that may be, whether he is the pastor, or the church secretary, an elder, a deacon, or even just a guy who likes to fall asleep in the front row. Sphere: Related Content