Kerr's Korner
JUDGING
By John Kerr
Jan and I made our annual trip to Jacksonville, Florida over the week including July 4th. Brian and I are live streaming the International Barbershop Quartet convention and competition. This year it is in Denver, Colorado, but we are watching it from Brian’s house in Jacksonville. The sixty-five best quartets in the world compete. They came to be judged and see who the world champion will be.
I thought about judging. They are judged in three categories: Music, Singing, and Performance. Brian and I almost always agree with each other on what position the quartets should be in. This might amaze you, but the judges get it wrong on a fairly regular basis. Of course I say that “tongue in cheek” because we have no right to judge any of the singers. We make judgments about them, but our opinions mean nothing.
A lot of folks say, “You can’t judge me. The Bible says judge not”. That is actually the first two words of Matthew 7. It stops a little short. Romans 14:4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
I Corinthians 2:11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
By John Kerr
Jan and I made our annual trip to Jacksonville, Florida over the week including July 4th. Brian and I are live streaming the International Barbershop Quartet convention and competition. This year it is in Denver, Colorado, but we are watching it from Brian’s house in Jacksonville. The sixty-five best quartets in the world compete. They came to be judged and see who the world champion will be.
I thought about judging. They are judged in three categories: Music, Singing, and Performance. Brian and I almost always agree with each other on what position the quartets should be in. This might amaze you, but the judges get it wrong on a fairly regular basis. Of course I say that “tongue in cheek” because we have no right to judge any of the singers. We make judgments about them, but our opinions mean nothing.
A lot of folks say, “You can’t judge me. The Bible says judge not”. That is actually the first two words of Matthew 7. It stops a little short. Romans 14:4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
I Corinthians 2:11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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