To judge or not to judge?

"Judge not lest ye be judged."  Oh, it's quoted correctly alright. But the problem is it is taken out of context. People don't really understand the entirety of what is being spoken.  This passage IS on forgiveness and grace but it is also about helping someone who is wandered from the path.  

Here is the end of the passage:

Matthew 7:3-5 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?  How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." 

Did you see that? THEN you can see clearly to help remove the speck from your brother's eye. There is an expectation that we FIRST make sure that our lives are in order but then to HELP them. In love of course. Inaction is what can lead to "trendy Christianity."  When we help others, clearly it should be in love and we should forgive, but we don't stop there, we take it one step further and help them as well.  Most of the time when we don't it is becuase we don't want to deal with the "junk" we have too, so it becomes easy to turn a blind eye to both MY "junk" and theirs.   Clean out your closet, get rid of the junk, then go and help your brother.  Proverbs 27:17 says, "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."