Indwelling Sin.

“instead of acknowledging the the depth and complexity and ugliness and danger of sin in professing Christians, sin is either minimized because we are already justified or psychologized as symptom of woundedness rather than corruption. This is a tragically light healing. I call it a tragedy because by making life easier for ourselves in minimizing the nature and seriousness of our sin, we become greater victims of it. We in fact are not healing ourselves, those that say they already feel bad enough without being told about the corruptions of indwelling sin misread the path to peace...they assume that justification springs them from ongoing attention to their sin that ongoing attention to their sin is optional not essential to their journey...the pastoral challenge is to train Christians to exalt in the solution without ever losing sight of the problem, to delight in the cross without avoiding discussion on why the cross was actually necessary and why we need the cross each and everyday. Because we can not just proclaim the Gospel of grace or help people apply the Gospel of grace without addressing sin.” -Paul Harvey