judging

Confession: I find myself judging others a lot, especially in the church. So today I visited another church to get connected with this summer. I think I know what church family I will be connecting with for this summer now.

I hate myself for doing this, but I would be lying if I wasn't saying so. When visiting a church, there will always come a point when one of these quotes comes to mind:

"Wow, the worship is so dead, everyone seems so fake"
" (fill in the blank) church does this better than this church"
"The pastor needs to preach more from the bible"
"These people aren't welcoming at all"
"There is a lot of white people in this church"
"They have a women leading worship..."
"A bunch of people in suits playing the drums, electric guitar...that's so not this generation..."
blah, blah, blah, blah.... you get the point.

It is funny because this was happening to me this morning. There came a point while all thoughts similar to above came into my mind this morning, the pastor went up to lead communion. Right then, I just had to smack myself in the forehead. Confessed all my judgmental accounts and prayed that I will quit judging and worship with my family.

I thought I wasn't a judgmental person, but today, I was all wrong. I was more judgmental to my my family in Christ than those who aren't following Christ. I was judging the way they worship our LORD... Ahhh that's terrible but is an area that I need to allow His grace to intervene.

Goal starting now:
- quit talking smack (judging) of other ministries; they all have the same goal as me, if I find myself urging to do that, pray for them, bless them.

What is an area that you find yourself judging others?