Such easy misunderstandings as are now current make it all the more important that we be very clear in our own minds what condemnation is and how it relates to the more basic sense of judgment that only involves “separating” one thing from another to the best of our ability. We simply cannot forsake discernment, and Jesus himself devotes the last half of Matthew 7 to urging us precisely to discern and, in that sense, to “judge.” But we must forsake the practice of condemning people, and that will not be difficult at all once we see clearly what it is to condemn and have previously rid
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