If we thought of judging as being prejudice, would we be so ready to hang onto it. I heard this thought, how can I judge someone for doing what I used to do, believing it to be right…maybe even as recently as last week? Are we not all just walking in the light we’ve been given?
I agree with Brennan Manning, “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
It’s no wonder that the unbelieving world scoffs at us and calls us hypocrites, when they hear professing believers judging each other. Holding on to our own set of doctrines 
and traditions, while dismissing another’s as being “wrong”. Maybe the world just can’t hear us, or believe us when we say “God wants you just as you are, He will forgive you”, because our actions are saying so loudly that we don’t really believe in forgiveness, or we wouldn’t be so unforgiving!
Lay aside your prejudices; listen calmly, listen dispassionately; hear what Scripture says; and when you receive the truth, if God should be pleased to reveal and manifest it to your soul, do not be ashamed to confess it. To confess you were wrong yesterday is only to acknowledge that you are a little wiser today; and instead of being a reflection on yourself, it is an honor to your judgment, and shows that you are improving in the knowledge of the truth. Do not be ashamed to learn, and to cast aside your old doctrines and views, but take up that which you may more plainly see to be in the word of God. ~ Charles Spurgeon
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