Fault Finding Versus a Bulwark against Sin
I recently read a blog post about signs of pride. Most of them were useful, but one was said in a way that blots out a gigantic part of Christian love while highlighting another useful sign of pride. Well, this thing has been pervasive in many Christian groups, and I've never in my life seen the biblical method in action - it's blotted out in our practice. The sign of pride in view here is fault finding. A prideful heart indeed nitpicks others while ignoring sin in self. A biblical solution for that among Christians is to confess your own sin to the others. That will heal the nitpicking form of fault finding that Jesus touched on with the metaphor of the mote and beam. Telling sin to the other is, of course, a tender action of personal closeness. You can't do it if you suspect the other has the same sin, and you can't do it with the biblically unsaved. But oh how it helps! Yet this point about fault finding is very often used to blot out another gift of the Christian co