Mine did not. I don't ever remember hearing about the sin of Hypocrisy in Sunday
school, not during the childhood years when kid's brains are sponges.
Hypocrisy got covered in the older youth group, but only in passing, as a
bad Pharisee thing.
It wasn't until I joined the now defunct
CrossWalk forums in the early 2000s that I dug into studying the
scripture dealing with hypocrisy on my own (because I desired and did win a debate taking on the "Don't Judge" trope — both Mt 7:1 and Rom 2:1 contextually fall under Hypocrisy).
But
my findings and My Point is: With the exception of failure to accept
Jesus, Hypocrisy is probably the greatest of the "sleeper sins" that
civil law never addresses. Hypocrisy brought out Jesus' righteous anger
whereas the sins most people think are worse were met with compassion.
...if you are able to call out hypocrisy as a genuine warning instead of as an insult, that would be an act of love.
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