I have my moments also, but I’m going to feel pretty shameful explaining to Jesus why I cast the first stone.
Scripture lays out the proper process for addressing issues that come up in the church, but motive has a lot to do with it.
Are you judging to judge or fell good about yourself, or are you doing it with the motivation because you see someone going off on a wrong path and need/want to help them?
If we are so worried about the idea that correcting someone is stone casting, nobody would ever be corrected and that would not be good either.
I had an acquaintance I was trying to help and it required confronting her about some of her own self-destructive behavior, shop lifting, drinking, etc.
She got offended when I called her shoplifting *stealing*, but it’s what needed to be done.
Her alcoholism was destroying her and it would do no good to her to let her continue down that path without trying to say something.
Sometimes love demands that something be said or action be taken.
I would hope that if someone saw me going off on a bad track that they would care enough to say something.
Satan sure has you two wimped out!
...remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
It is EVERYONE's job!!
I do not condemn them. That is above my pay grade.
But it is not condemning, or 'casting stones', to warn them that THEIR UNREPENTED ACTIONS LEAD TO PERDITION.
How will you feel explaining to Jesus why you did not warn your brother of the foreseeable consequences of his actions?