Is it my observational bias, or are too many Christians today flaunting questionable lifestyles behind the curtain of grace?<\/p>\n
What do I mean?<\/p>\n
That because God is a God of Unconditional Love and always stands perched to forgive us for any sin\/s we commit, regardless of how many times we do so, does this mindset not throw wide open the door to living unrestrained lives of sin, to live however we want?<\/p>\n
Because our ticket to Heaven has already been punched, we have nothing to worry about. Besides, God wants us to be happy.<\/p>\n
(Note: If this is really true, that God wants us to be happy, then He owes a gargantuan apology to every persecuted Christian in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Eretria and anywhere else. His Promise of happiness applies to the afterlife, not necessarily to this life.)<\/em><\/p>\n I believe America’s pulpits have contributed to this doctrinal erosion. I bang my head against our sanctuary wall trying to figure out what pastors have done with such clear admonitions as Romans 6:1: “Should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of His wonderful Grace?”<\/em><\/p>\n There’s little doubt, that beyond the failure from the pulpit, the culture has contributed to our lax-lifestyles by its insistence on personal freedom; which among other factors presupposes the blurring-to-absence of laws. Each writes his own. “Don’t tell how to live!”<\/em><\/p>\n Yet it’s this very subject of Law that forms the basis for how each of us can establish a relationship with God. If we have no understanding of His Law, then we can’t come to terms with gaining His Favor. No Law, no salvation.<\/p>\n Why not come this Sunday as we begin a new sermon series for the summer months on the The Law; more specifically, on the focal point of Moses’ Law, familiarly called the 10 Commandments?<\/p>\n This Sunday’s message is: “What is God’s Purpose for the Law?”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is it my observational bias, or are too many Christians today flaunting questionable lifestyles behind the curtain of grace? What do I mean? That because God is a God of Unconditional Love and always stands perched to forgive us for any sin\/s we commit, regardless of how many times we do so, does this mindset… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastors-desk","category-sermon-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stone-tablet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}