It’s a made-up word, “non-judgmentalism”, but I use it to get at the word grace. It has to do with the whole common behavior of trying to fix other people, but overlooking our own flaws. Jesus used the imagery of taking a speck out of another person’s eye, all the while oblivious to the log in one’s own eye. At the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7) Jesus does an extended teaching on being gracious, or for the purpose of this blog, helping us to move away from “judgmentalism.”
Nobody likes to be judged with a harsh attitude, and it is in this context that Jesus says, “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you.” This golden rule calls for grace. Beautiful.