Should a Christian Judge: Seeing Wrong and Speaking Out

Yesterday I posted my concerns regarding whether or not a Christian should judge.  After that I listened to this sermon on the subject and it was very helpful to me.  At the beginning of this sermon, Paul Dowling speaks of society professing not to believe in any rights or wrongs, and in my life I have heard many times certain family members speaking of "my truth" or "your truth".    These notes are quite long, but I hope that you will read all of them. 

Should a Christian Judge: Seeing Wrong and Speaking Out

Matthew 7:1-5 "Judge not, that ye be not judged.  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.  And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest  not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
 
The purpose of this series (on judging) is to correct the thinking in the area of our cultural attitude.  Our society and culture thinks certain things and the Christian church has suckled from society's views and have come to read our society's views into new testament Christianity.  And in this series, people that do such things have made Christianity to be toothless.  Our society likes to say of itself that it is non-judgmental.  "I wouldn't judge" is the common blurb.  Our society also professes not to believe in any rights or wrongs, any absolutes.  If you don't believe in rights or wrongs you are not going to be judgmental.

If something is right, than the other is wrong.  Therefore society says that no matter what people say or do, say nothing because everyone has a right to their opinion, just say or do nothing about it.  And all these things hang together.  If you don't believe in right or wrong, you don't speak out about right and wrong. This wouldn't be so bad if that attitude stayed in the world, but now this whole pollution from our society has entered into the church of Christ.  And people have come to think that it is spiritual to be non-judgmental.  Let me tell you it is not spiritual to be non-judgmental.
We study this because the popular view today is never judge anything, never be angry about anything, never call anybody any name and just be nice and encouraging all the time.  That is the vast majority view of Christianity today.  That view is a twisting and perversion of new testament Christianity.