What has God really said about the church making judgments? Are we not to make any at all and leave it all to him, or is there a middle ground? We will look at what Jesus and others have said on the subject and see that righteous judgment is very much the church's business, and those judgments are shaped in community.
We cannot know ourselves or God fully or truly if the only standard we use is our own assessment of ourselves. Community serves as a mirror in which we see the image we have been missing that leads to growth in godliness.