Truth is proclaimed without mature understanding and applied without sensitivity. The process is self-insulating because information that might challenge these limited understandings is either not perceived at all or so badly distorted and caricatured that it can have no impact. The fact the others disagree is seen as evidence of weak intellect, sinful perversion of character, and ultimately unworthiness even to exist. Once again the result is that opponents must be either eradicated or in some other way deprived of the right to express their views. Judgmentalism overcomes grace.
Genuine truth is never content to exist only conceptually.
For Jesus grace was part of truth, not incompatible with it but part of the very expression of it. Obedience to the truth derived from reliance upon his Father in Heaven, a relationship of dependence that he constantly modeled for his followers who to a far greater degree needed to understand that they must not exalt their own moral strength. The zealot not only severs the link between truth and grace but rather than recognizing grace as the motivator toward obedience insists that grace can only be extended on the condition of obedience. Therefore love and acceptance are extended as the carrot of reward that can be earned when the sinner tires of the stick of judgment. Although perhaps unspoken or even unrecognized, it is clear that power of grace is considered inferior to the power of condemnation and judgment.