What are Some Church-Going Sins? (TMF:1687)

Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Peace to Live By: What are Some Church-Going Sins? (TMF:1687) - Daniel Litton
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       Creating rules against these things only increases our desire to do them. And notice from Paul’s list this is just not the common unbeliever’s sins. But it also includes a lot of, shall we say, church-going sins, which are often accepted in church dare I say. Note them, the middle ones on the list: “enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy.” A lot of these sins we see just as much in church as we see among unbelievers. Paul told us last week, earlier in this chapter, “But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code” (Romans 7:6, ESV). Having said all this, don’t misunderstand me; rules can be good in our lives, as Christians. They definitely are good. But they will not stop the indulgence of the flesh. In other words, creating rules won’t make us less sinful, or less sin-filled.