Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Just because you don't agree with something about someone doesn't mean everything about them is wrong… Christians are (quite rightly sometimes) labelled as judgemental, I find it so sad that we (I include myself in this bracket) listen/watch someone and when they say/do something we dislike or disagree with/when they say something judgemental we then in turn judge them and dismiss them entirely. Just because they have said or done or judged something which we disagree with does not mean that everything about them is wrong. We who have judged secondly in this dirty chain of events are just as bad, if not worse sometimes.

Without wanting to blow my own trumpet; a silly little example. I have some severe ideological differences with my two closest friends, my vicar, my mentee, my future father and brother in law. But does this mean that I walk away from them and judge them as dead to me? No. Does this mean that I condone everything about their lifestyle choice? No. Does this mean I love them any less? …no.

Now obviously I am in the right on this, and if anyone disagrees they can get lost, but anyways, oh wait no that's not what I meant to say. Diversity is a beautiful thing, our differences although might be hard to live with are part of what makes life so beautiful. God calls us to love one another, to turn the other cheek, to let him do the judging and for us to do like what Jesus did.

So to all my Spurs chums, my sincerest apologies for mocking you last night, I was wrong.