When a Christian is more interested in pointing out the errors in other people's lives, hobbies and interests than in their own...they have forgotten the depth of their own sins against God.

Before you tear down others, examine your own soul. Before you apply Scripture to another's life, apply it wholeheartedly to yourself.

So often we love to point out the errors of others, while ignoring the mire we ourselves keep slipping into.  And while there are times for correction (especially warning against false teachings)....there is never a time to be pelting others with stones...for I've not yet met one mere mortal without sin.

I always look at it this way for myself....I am a wretch, wholly human and wholly flawed, saved by the grace and mercy of Christ Jesus.  I cannot even manage to fully keep the Two Greatest Commandments as they should be kept; I do not love God as I ought, nor do I love my neighbor as fully as I should.  Until I can perfectly keep even just those two commandments...no stones will be in my hands.

For I have no right, having been saved myself, to pelt others for having failings such as I myself do.

And pondering upon it...I've never seen the "sinner who is bullied and pelted by the faithful" come unto Christ....they're usually terrified He's as wretched and small minded as the stone-throwers.  When in fact, there is no one who loves the fallen and the broken more, no one with more compassion or understanding, no one more willing to forgive and welcome.  I wish more Christians would tell of Christ as He is; and not use Him as a weapon to hurt others.

-Beth Haynes Butler​