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	Devotional : Loving the Sinner
	
				
		As Christians, what should our response be when we discover that someone in our congregation has an ongoing problem with sin? Perhaps they're having an affair, or they've been arrested numerous times for drug possession. What is the appropriate course to take? This devotional takes a close look at Jesus' teaching on the subject, and explains what every Christian should do when a fellow believer is struggling with sin.  
			
	
http://delveintojesus.com/Devotionals/39/Loving-the-Sinner.aspx
	Judging - a Christian perspective
	
				
		Why do people spend so much time judging others, when they have plenty of their own faults they should be worried about? Jesus' famous caution to focus on our own behavior, rather than obsessing over other people's flaws.
			
	
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207:1-3&version=31
	Basilea Schlink : Criticizing: Judging
	
				
		Included in the sins of pride, which God treats especially severely, are the sins of criticizing and judging. "God opposes the proud" (I Pet. 5: 5). Even if a person believes in Jesus, if at the same time, he persists in judging others God is not for him. Then God has to be against him. But it would
			
	
http://sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=835
	Directions for Judging a Person's Experiences ~ Edwards
	
				
		That the influence be upon the will or heart, not on the imagination, nor on the speculative understanding or thought processes of the mind, even if these processes sweep the emotions along with them as a consequence. That the disturbance in their thinking not be excessive, in that their thinking is
			
	
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