The subtitle of this excellent article by pastor Bob DeWaay referenced below is: Defining the Believer’s Biblical Call to Judge. Those who wish to make a stand for proper Biblical Christianity will often be quoted verse 1 from Matthew 7 – Do not judge lest you be judged.

However, as you’ll see in this important teaching from DeWaay, the section of Scripture from which this comes isn’t teaching us not to make judgments based upon what God’s Word actually says. DeWaay begins with a critical question:

So does Matthew 7:1-5 teach that Christians should accept all teachers and teachings without discrimination? No. This passage concerns peoples’ motivations and the degree of their internal righteousness. These matters we are not to judge.

Other passages, which we will examine later, are concerned with judging the content of a person’s teaching. Before we study those texts, let us examine other passages that are used to suggest that false teachers should not be corrected publicly… (Online source)

You can read the rest of this much-needed and dead-on-target message from pastor Bob DeWaay by right here.

HT: Crosstalk Blog

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