Living in sin

Some people like to talk about a ''lifestyle of sin''. They contend that a non-Christian lives a lifestyle of sin, and though a Christian sometimes sins, they don't live a ''lifestyle of sin''.

What difference does it make? Is God impressed when someone only occasionally sins?
''The soul who sins shall die.''

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Well put

“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” 
― José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

“Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.” 
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.” 
― Walter Kirn

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.” 
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The short, short version

God in human flesh
Lived and died for you and me
Lives forevermore.

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Preachy

When I was a younger person, I always wanted to preach ''the gospel'' to my non-Christian friends and family members. It was tough sell and I knew it. The ''gospel'' as I understood it then was basically:
1. Repent
2. Believe in Christ
3. Get baptized
4. Live a holy enough life to be saved.
This was difficult not only because it's hard to bring up with people, but also, how could I tell them to do something I wasn't able to do? I knew that I wasn't holy enough to be saved. In fact, my only real motivation for sharing this with others was that if I could ''win'' enough people, that maybe God would overlook the things in my life that were not up to code.

The only thing I could preach to people now is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I've put all my eggs in that basket. That's the kind of good news that is actually good news to a sinful world.

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