My thoughts today, being a Sunday, are directed to you in your Sunday best. Some of you glare disapprovingly, shaking a head and mumbling to others in the car. Most of you are apathetic, avoiding even the slightest interaction. I wonder if you believe you are justified to the extent you could cast the first stone? Or if you recognize your own hypocrisy and are simply walking away? I judge you today as having chosen maga’s propaganda over Christ’s scriptures.

Hypocrisy is a powerful accusation, one quickly invoking the defensive catch-all retort , “judge not, lest you be judged." Let there be no mistake, that verse does not absolve me from the responsibility to point out your adherence to misguided beliefs and actions, from trying to guide you in the way of righteousness. Strict adherence to “judge not” negates the entire foundational need for ministry, pulpit preaching, or evangelism - all of which judge the darkness of the world is in need of enlightenment. Of discernment and righteous judgement. Sanctioned judgment precedes Christian evangalism. Judgement and offering an alternative direction are my obligations, not accepting that judgement is your right. I am told to clean your dust off my feet and move on.