The Big Picture on Judging

I like to work puzzles a particular way.  I like to work them without the box top and from inside out.  I don't want to know what the puzzle is intended to look like, and I don't want to size it up first.

Now, you may be thinking to yourself how silly this is, but it is my preference.  Maybe I'm not that good at working puzzles...

When you make a comment in a dissertation of how to complete puzzles in a popular puzzle-working magazine (or in a public or private conversation) on the ideal, best, or most effective method to working puzzles, I may take offense.  However, my offense is unfounded. 

Are you judging me?  You have not indicted me personally; you have expressed your philosophical view on a topic expressing a standard.  You most likely wouldn't come to me in confrontation and attack me on how foolish my method is.  As a person, you may come to me in an opportune season and lovingly, logically, or otherwise discuss my methodology with me.

After careful thought (or empirical evidence), you may determine that the method I use is bad, less effective, or not ideal.  You have judged my method (not me).  To be considered judgmental, you would have to form an opinion too quickly.  You have not too quickly judged me at this point, you have merely expressed your view on how to complete a puzzle. When you treat me differently because of your opinion, then you are being judgmental.

Jesus did not come to judge or condemn but rather to save.  Jesus came declaring truth, but He did not condemn; that was unnecessary because we are already condemned (John 3:16-18).