EVERYTHING DOES MATTER/JUDGMENTAL ATTITUDE:

“Suppose someone sees you, who have the knowledge, sitting eating in the temple of some false god, do you not think that his conscience, vulnerable as it is, may be encouraged to eat foods dedicated to false gods? And then it would be through your knowledge that this brother for whom Christ died, vulnerable as he is, has been lost. So, sinning against your brothers and wounding their vulnerable consciences, you would be sinning against Christ…” (1 Cor.8:10-13).

When we eat anywhere and anyhow, dress and undress anywhere and anyhow, sing anywhere and anyhow, drink (wine/alcohol) anyhow and anywhere, speak anyhow or anywhere, visualize (watch anyhow movies or gaze at peoples nakedness) anyhow or anywhere, reason anywhere or anyhow, take actions (in office/school/home/church/market/streets/shops/road-driving) without considering its impact on others; we may be luring other people into temptation and sin forgetting that many souls have been destined for trials but woe to him through whom it comes {‘The Son of man is going to his fate, as the scripture say he will, but alas for that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better for that man if he had never been born!’ Mtt.26:24} and “but anyone who is the downfall of one of these little ones who have faith, would be better thrown into the sea with a great millstone hung round his neck” (Mk.9:42).

This does not give us the opportunity to be judgmental in approach, looks and opinion rather we should try as much as possible to excuse each other as well as have a word of comfort for all hence when we encounter people in these environments and we are free/less busy (‘act wisely with outsiders, making the best of the present time’ Col.4:5) we should admonish them with love (‘though I command languages both human and angelic – if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing…’ 1 Cor.13.1-8) on how to stop these habits or reduce them where it is not sin to do them at all thus “never repeat what you are told and you will come to no harm; whether to friend or foe, do not talk about it, unless it would be sinful not to, do not reveal it” [Sirach 19:7-9] and ‘for me everything is permissible; maybe, but not everything does good. True, for me everything is permissible but I am determined not to be dominated by anything’ (1 Cor.6:12).