REVrant 35.4 - Rampant Bad Judgment

Judgment = “the ability to come to opinions about things; good sense”

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve made the following statement in the past year – “I wish you could teach good judgment.”  In over 30 years as a Sr. Pastor, I’ve seen far too many instances of bad judgment.  And of course, bad judgment normally leads to bad consequences.  I don’t mean to suggest that I always make the right choices or decisions.  But some people seem to be serial “bad judg-ers!”  They make one bad choice after another.  And they never seem to learn from it.  Consequently, they live “from the frying pan into the fire” – lives.

Episodes of bad judgment produce predictable questions: “Why did he say that?”  “What was he thinking?”  “Didn’t he think his wife would find out?”  “Why would you expose children to that?”  “Where did she think the money was coming from?”  “Doesn’t he know that emails leave a trail?”  “Did he think we were going to ignore that?”  “What was she thinking?”  “Why write a letter like that?” You get the idea.  You just shake your head and wonder, “Where was his (or her) judgment?”

The past few days the media spotlight has been pointed at Pastor Jeremiah Wright and his famous parishioner, Barack Obama.  As I watched some of the news coverage tonight, guess what I was thinking about both the Rev. and the Candidate? “Where was his judgment?”  

Comments

[Steve-O]

Just curious if McCain would get a free pass from the media if his pastor was Fred Phelps...