Helping People Far From God Without Judgment: RRE 32
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[6] Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, [7] a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. [8] And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? [9] For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” [10] But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. [11] For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. [12] In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. [13] Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
Matthew 26:6–13 ESV
It’s not for us to judge why someone is far from God. It’s so easy for us, not in someone else’s situation, to judge what they have done with their lives. It’s so easy to look at one slice of a person’s life and make big decisions about what kind of person they are.
We desire that people experience Jesus the way that we have. Instead of wondering how people got where they are, we can tell people about where Jesus is right now! Jesus is close to them, and just like He didn’t try to distance Himself from the woman in the house of Simon the leper, He won’t distance Himself from the people we talk to either.