Need your car fixed? We Christians can help with that! No one to pal around with? Hey, let’s get a pickup game of basketball going! Can’t walk the walk? No sense feeling guilty about it! Christianity has become the religion of meeting felt needs. It is no longer about sin it is about what we can get from God. They wept over the release from that oppressive taskmaster.īut in churches today, the message has been changed. Those converts knew they were saved because that crushing load of sin was removed. Those preachers brought people to the cross, the place where sins were laid down and forgiven. They understood that conversion came only after people understood the depths of their own depravity.
The grace that promises to lead us home was offered freely to us when Christ paid our penalty, the penalty of sin. Seekers wrestled with sin and fell upon God seeking forgiveness from it. The ancients understood the ugly stain they could not wash out. The freedom we are to proclaim to the captives is freedom from sin. The whole Reformation started because Luther was overcome by his own sinfulness and was begging for release. Knew that it was a ball and chain that kept them in bondage. God immediately cursed those two, then gave a promise that sin would be dealt with by a perfect sacrifice.Ĭhristians throughout history understood how pervasive sin was. Long time ago, the Garden: the universe was corrupted by two humans who chose sin over the Almighty. The Voice of One Crying Out in Suburbia.25 Most Visited Posts on Cerulean Sanctum.Post Categories Post Categories Best of Cerulean Sanctum A Christian Guide to Understanding People and Ministering Reconciliation.
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