1. We judge when we’re afraid. Ignorance and fear are the leading reasons we judge people—fear being at the very top. It drives our inability to love people like Jesus loves, and people feel it. We fear their sin will rub off on us as if by some sin transfer system that doesn’t exist. We don’t want their “leprosy,” the very thing Jesus made a beeline to heal. We judge what we do not know, what we have not experienced, what we do not understand because we fear not being able to handle those realities. We don’t want to associate with a tax collector even though we are tax collectors
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