Judgment

Here is an exchange I recently had with a reader that I think is worth re-posting:

Anonymous said...

it seems that now a days if you have a different view on anything having to do with the culture\society we live in (sex, family, marriage, work, finances, materialism) you're labeled as being judgmental. wanting to obey Christ and show your faith you're considered to be condemning people. people never want to check themselves as to why they feel that way (could it be guilt?) so they accuse someone trying to live rightly of being wrong and naive and "that's just not how the world is". why are people so ok with that?

March 20, 2008 12:26 PM

No doubt, great observation. The sad thing is when the church listens to them and refuses to comment on family or cultural morals and pretends like they have no understanding from the Bible of what is right or wrong. We are not to look down on those who lack the truth, for it is by God's grace alone that we have truth. But that does not mean that we are to deny the Truth that we so surely have.

Can salt water come from a fresh spring? Of course not, nothing can be anything, except what it is. We are the light of the world, we can be nothing other. John chapter one says that when light came into the world, the darkness rejected it because their deeds were evil. In the same way Christ said that the world would reject us.

The world rejects the light because the light prevents them from enjoying their evil deeds in darkness. We cannot stop being who we are and we cannot put their rejection upon ourselves. Yes, like Paul, we should always seek to be all things to all men so that all may be saved, but in doing this we must never water down the Gospel or deny its truth.