Ed Stetzer is the President of Lifeway Research and is currently the interim Teaching Pastor at First Baptist Church, Hendersonville, TN. Here is some of what he shared:
Selfish ambition is as much sin as is murder (Eph. 5: 19-21).
Compromise is Satan's desire; if he can't compromise our beliefs, he is happy to compromise our character.
Secret sins are only that way for a short period of time (Numbers 12). If you won't come to repentance, God will bring you to repentance.
Private sin can deliver the community of faith into public defeat (Joshua 7). Faith gives strength to boldness; sin gives strength to weakness. Faith thrives in community.
The church's toleration of sin distracts from the mission God calls the church (1 Cor. 5). Tolerating open sin is naive; it should not be allowed in a covenant community.
A return to God's mission begins with a return to God's standard (1 Cor. 10).
John Calvin- "the human heart is an idol factory".
Sin grows and it becomes a big deal (James 1:15).
A repentant people is God's most powerful tool for ministry on earth.
The Gospel is not about the maintenance of sin.
The power in the Christian life is not in the absence of sin but rather in the joy of forgiveness.
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