8.4.10 ATTACK OR REVEAL?

in your editorial, 'let's admit.., you bring out some negative things about one who, i would think, professes to be a christian. this creates a reaction and also some questions.
i would say that your words cause me to defend the person who you are writing about (or to?). it seems like you are passing judgment on him for being a hypocrite. romans 2.1 says 'therefore you are without excuse, every man of you who passes judgment. for if you judge another, you condemn yourself. for you who judge practice the same thing'. if God is correct here that means you yourself do the same thing you are accusing this other man of, thereby placing yourself in a position of greater judgment. the bible says in matthew 18 that 'if your brother commits a sin, go and take the matter up with him, strictly between yourselves'. first of all, i wonder if you have talked to this man privately? now you may say that this is not sin. (i think hypocrisy is a sin, isn't it? romans 12 says, 'let your love be without hypocrisy' and to my way of thinking isn't that just another way of saying 'let your life be without hypocrisy, since our whole life as christians should be about love.) let's say, for sake of argument, that what you are pointing out is NOT sin. what about where james says, 'my brothers, do not blame your troubles on one another, or you will fall under judgment and there stands the Judge at the door (5.9) i'm supposing that in the long run goodness and badness have their appropriate rewards.

so much of what you do as a magazine is stellar because of your carefulness with regard to factuality. facts (truth) reveal all that needs to be revealed, says all that needs be said. ( ie. there is nothing, fact wise, that anyone could question here.) to that excellence i think that all the writers could act in the capacity of 'priests' by seeking to clarify, and by God's grace, change person A's 'facts' by being transformed into person B (salt and light), coming along side and trying much harder to understand than to be understood...and thereby possibly bringing a hidden grace to person A (EVEN IF PERSON A'S PUBLICLY REPORTABLE FACTS DO NOT CHANGE!). we, as sinners ourselves can have a heart experience of the wonderbeauty of that Jesus-moment when He said to the publicly shamed, very needy, very hurting woman (aren't we all, in reality?!), 'neither do I. go and sin no more'. you and i can say anything when it is filled with love which makes no place for condemnation.

just a thot, brother. God continue to bless and us you to draw men to Him in all you do.