In this sermon Judgmental - To Be or Not To Be - That is the Question, What does it mean not to be judgmental?  There is nothing that a person can do that avoids the necessity of making a judgment of some kind. Clearly, avoiding judgments is not a warning to avoid decisions. A Christian's life is filled with decisions. Moral decisions and refusing to compromise the Truth, requiring that the discerning Christian be "judgmental." The judgment Christians is to leave intentions, motives, and final worth to God. We're not to confuse the actions of people with sitting in judgment over them as supreme judge. The harsh, critical, judgmental spirit is obviously wrong and some have tried to get so far away from it that they've gone to the opposite extreme, which is permissiveness. The holders of this position point to the first five verses of Matthew 7 as their proof text; we are not to judge. They stress long and loud that we cannot judge. They interpret that as meaning we cannot judge in any case or in any setting, and especially don't try to tell me I'm doing anything wrong. The permissive person holds to a religion that serves "the Great Mush God." Everything is all right with God. The motto of the permissivist is "live and let live." He'll never condemn a practice as sin or a doctrine as false because to do such is judging, and he believes in being "tolerant". But, Jesus doesn't end his discussion of judging with the command "judge not". He goes on to say, "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs." If you think verses 1-5 prohibit any kind of discerning in judgment, you've got a real problem here.