At my gym, along one long wall, in two foot
tall lettering and stretching a full thirty feet, are two words, "No
Judgement."
Gym members come in all sizes and shapes
and shades and select their own exercises and lengths of workouts and end objectives.
We are all there to make improvements. Company is motivational.
Churches use mottos, slogans, rally cries,
catchwords and taglines too.
Sometimes soppy stuff like 'Feed and be Fed;'
or, 'God is Still Speaking,' or 'Reaching Up and Reaching Out.'
Sometimes it's a wordy, wearying précis of
paragraphs. 'A Church With Respect For The Past, Passion For The Present,
Vision For The Future.'
Sometimes it's unimpressive, uninspiring. For
instance, 'The Bible, the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible; or, 'We are
committed to teaching, preaching and standing by the Bible.'
I'm a veteran of church life. I know that a
great deal of unwarranted judgement occurs where it should be least in evidence
because we all sizes and shapes and shades and all equally in need of
improvements and ultimately there is only one Grand Assessor and he loves us a
lot.
I would like to see a church put up in two
foot tall letters a banner twenty feet long that shouts NO JUDGEMENT.
Perhaps a prayer we might offer is this,
