Instead of pretending someone else’s sin is worse than your sin, confess your sin.
Maybe if Christians humbly confessed their sins first, the world would be more likely to come to terms with their sins. Imagine what the church might look like if that happened.Īnd we haven’t even touched gossip, gluttony or envy yet, all things with which Christians routinely self-medicate their pain. But I’m also all for submitting our propensity to gossip, our divisiveness and our quarrelling to Jesus and dealing with that seriously. I’m all for surrendering our sexuality to Christ. I would suggest that just as many congregations have been ruined by gossip, divisiveness and quarrelling as have been stained by sexual sin. But you’d never know it given the way we talk about sin. And quarrelling-sins Christians routinely ignore. And-don’t get me wrong-sexual sin has serious implications.īut so does gossip. We pretend that the worst sin you can commit is sexual. When your church becomes a mouthpiece for a political party, you cease to be the church.Ĭhristians have become fairly good at focusing on the moral failings of others while ignoring their own. God is not a Republican or a Democrat, or in my country, a Conservative, Liberal or New Democrat. If you’re always angry or cynical or all you do is complain online and you think “well, I wouldn’t want to be friends with someone like that in real life,” then that’s a clue that maybe you shouldn’t say it, or be like that.Īnd if you think “well, then I’ll have nothing to post,” then you’ve likely put your finger on a deeper issue.Ĭhristians, let’s just stop being so weird online, okay? 2. Commenting on Politics Similarly, if you think “Well, people would just walk out of the room if I said that in real life,” then maybe don’t say it. If you go to post something and you think, well, that would be braggy if I said that to someone, that’s a healthy check. I think a general rule is if you can’t imagine saying it in real life to a person, you shouldn’t say it online.