judgement

1 corinthians 5 there were people in the corinthian church who were arrogant in their sin. My gut reaction is that I am not arrogant about sin but there are many times when I might try to justify my sin based on cricumstances or whatever, where I might conveniantly ignore my sin while focusing on someone else's. That's not a humble attitude towards sin and so it probably is arrogant. At then end of the chapter Paul says that we are not to judge people outside the church but we need to judge people inside the church. This reflects Jesus' attitude who hard harsh words for religious people but was happy to associate with all sorts of dodgy sinners. Unfortunately, the church seems to get it the wrong way round - shouting at the world, pointing out what it is doing wrong and trying to control non-christian's behaviour while often ignoring unrepentant sin among christians. That needs to change.