From the Pulpit...

Nothing in this passage prevents a believer from making legitimate use of the court system in a dispute with an unbeliever or corporation, or participating in a court hearing about a criminal matter. And it does not exempt professing believers from being summoned to court for misbehavior they have done. In both cases, we must be aware that the judge and most jurors will not all (most) be Christians. The law to which they are held is not perfectly just either. Such is life. Believers need to manage themselves well: first, to avoid disputes in the first place, and second, when problems arise, to address them in the Spirit. Period.

Our Scripture reading was found in Deuteronomy 9:1-29.