2009-09-18T13:16:39-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/beam/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207:3&version=NIV 2009-09-18T13:16:39-05:00 Jesus uses a deliberately extreme image in this passage--that of a plank in somebody's eye--to make a point about the human impulse to judge others while ignoring our own faults. Tend to your own flaws, Jesus teaches, before you get too upset about others'.