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A better way of looking at that verse is to understand it to mean that teachers shall incur a stricter judgment.
Of course, if a man is called to the ministry, he cannot help but preach the word of the Lord as he understands it. If he didn't, he would be like the slothful and lazy servant who took his talent and hid it in the sand.
The called minister says with Paul therefore, "Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!" (1 Corinthians 9:16)
Nothing in that link teaches us that it is a sin to stir up people to judge.
Jesus stirred up the Pharisees to judge when He said, "Which one of you convinceth me of sin?" (John 8:46).
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