In the Body of Christ, should there be any standards or should all be acceptable?
If you ever hold to a standard, be prepared to be called judgmental.
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
In the Body of Christ, should there be any standards or should all be acceptable?
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I'm new to the page, blog. I do believe in Jesus and I do hold a standard. I believe we are called to judge but by a Biblical standard (as in Matthew 6, first removing the plank in our eye so we may judge fairly). In this case, is being judgmental wrong?
I had this discussion on another blog recently - the biggest issue was the definition of 'the body of Christ'. Some people consider that to be the church - others are more specific and believe it to be the believers that are in the church. The distinction between these two kind of answers the question I think.
If we are talking about non-believers then we cannot hold them to the same standard that we hold believers - simply because they have not accepted and stated that Jesus is Lord. Until that happens, they are under the lordship of Lucifer. Once someone changes allegiance, changes identity to become a new creation and a child of the King then different rules may be applied.
Let's just be gentle in how we encourage discipleship.
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