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Dear Friends,

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April

Monday, November 30, 2009

Do not judge your neighbor

Jesus teaches us not to judge our neighbor.

Matthew 7:1-5 "Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2 For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. 3 Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' while the log is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye.

Do we ignore Jesus' teaching not to judge our neighbor?

Note: When followers of Jesus take it on themselves to be the judge of what their neighbor does, they presume to "be God" (Rom 14:10) therefore shutting themselves out from God's generous mercy.

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