Day 26

“Every temptation is an opportunity to do good.”
Purpose Driven Life
Point to Ponder: Day 26

I am not sure I like the word “sin” any more (not that I ever did). It seems that it has outlasted its usefulness with me.

We focus so much on sin, on what not to do, that we forget to do the things we should do.

In a typical youth group we spend 51 weeks a year speaking about how to avoid sin and then we spend one week on a mission trip.

That needs to be reversed.

We need to spend 51 weeks speaking on, learning about and doing mission and if necessary one week on how to avoid sin.

We forget that God left us here to do the work of Jesus in the world. Which brings me to another thing. We focus so much on what Jesus did not do “sin” that we spend no time on what Jesus did do “mission”.

In my view the only sin worth avoiding is the sin of not being on mission for God in the world.

Everything else is ultimately meaningless.