Sin is not a popular word in our modern churches. We would much rather talk about love and grace. I count myself in that company. But several discussions in this last week have reminded me again that if we have no sense or awareness of sin than we cheapen grace. If we have no concept of sin, then why do I need the cross? I know that we can go to extremes here but today we are guilty of what Isaiah states in 5:20 – “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”

Just today a friend sent me this story entitled “PCUSA Report Shows Evangelists Shifting Away From Calls to Repentance?”

I am not a fan of the old time fire and brimstone methodology, but I do not think we are anywhere close to that extreme. May God awaken us to the reality of the sin that affects us in all our faculties and to the grace that meets that sin with the wonder of forgiveness.