Sheep or Goat?

I was listening to a sermon this week and something he said really jumped out at me.  He said, “The problem with Christians today is that we love the sheep and goat story too much and ignore the stories of coming together.”   Like the Pharisees, I think we can too often be so smug in our Salvation that we kind of imagine ourselves separating the sheep and goats.  You know, just helping out the Lord, in case He had missed the sins of this person or that person.

I was pretty smugly thinking of all the Christians I know who are always talking about every one else who is going to hell and then I realized what I was doing.   Sitting in judgment of anyone, even my fellow Christians, is not exactly the action of a “sheep.”  Now, I am all for gentle correction within the spirit, but to stand there and try to sit in place of the Lord is probably not the best thing to do.

If we worked harder to be sheep and didn’t worry so much about who the goats were, we would be a LOT better off.