August 31, 2009

What is Wrong With Us?

In his new book The Prodigal God, Pastor Timothy Keller lays out what I believe is one of the most challenging and awe inspiring aspects of the message of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Keller uses the story of the Prodigal Son to define how Christ viewed and continues to view sin:

Here, then, is Jesus's radical redefinition of what is wrong with us. Nearly everyone defines sin as breaking a list of rules. Jesus, though, shows us that a man who has violated virtually nothing on the list of moral misbehaviors can be every bit as spiritually lost as the most profligate, immoral person. Why? Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

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