The principle for which Paul is here contending does not entail the conclusion that Christians are to be so wimpy that they make no distinctions whatsoever. Just because Calvinists have important things to learn from Wesley, and Wesleyans from Calvin, does not mean that both men were entirely right in all they said and taught. Paul is not here absolving Christians from the responsibility to discern, to test all teaching by Scripture, to pursue the best. Rather, he is roundly condemning that kind of judging that simply writes a Christian leader off because he does not neatly fit into my camp or because he appears to compete with my preferred guru or because he is not in my pocket.
-D.A. Carson, The Cross and Christian Ministry, p.101
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