For someone to actually get well, patients have to stop thinking of themselves as bad people who need to be better and start realizing they are sick people who can get well. That statement could also serve as an excellent description for what the Church of Jesus Christ is about. Jesus didn t treat people as evil or bad who must somehow shape up their lives by their own efforts in order to get into the kingdom of God. Rather, Jesus regarded people as sick people in need of love, forgiveness, and hope. With such medicines, they could get well.
Judgment is very much a part of the Bible.
I can only answer for myself. I preach love and forgiveness because that is what I see Jesus preaching to the ordinary people. His statements about judgment were directed at the righteous, the church insiders, those who believed they were well. Now this is not to excuse anyone from seeking to lead lives of moral integrity and responsibility. This is not to wink at immorality or wrong on the part of others.