Sinners

I would like it very much if I could say to you that this is not my personal opinion, but that just is not true.

There also may be some people that will see just a little too much of themselves in this and they’ll become a little uncomfortable and not like it. And if the happens then just delete it.

But the reason that I’m bringing this up is that I am faced with this problem on many fronts, both natural relational and friendships.







Rom 5:6-8

6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
NIV

We’re only human, NOT GODLY. Christ dying for us did not change who we are, but it did make it available to us that we could finally be accepted by God, fully.






God gave us grace. Eph 2:9-10 states that it was a gift from God and not something that we could earn ourselves so that no one could brag about what they were or were not doing. It was a gift that you did not earn. Period End. It wasn’t yours, it was a gift. God’s gift to you.

In Kentucky this was very evident to me. My family and I volunteered at a group home for boys who had trouble with the law. So it was kind of a step that because of their age before jail or prison.

Now all of us went twice a week to see them. Our Church, unfortunately, did not agree with what we were doing, were unsupportive and would not allow us to bring them to Church because there was concern that others would be afraid.


That exact problem is still a problem among Christians today. As long as you “act” like a Christian per the agreed upon societal definition then you’re ok, but IF you screw up and don’t meet their definition, then you’re a sinner by their definition and you’re not worthy of their company and they won’t talk to you or even be around you at all.

Maybe I’m wrong, but Jesus wasn’t like that. I’ll refer you back to the beginning scripture. Christ did not wait until we were good enough to come, no He came anyway. And because God is omni everything, He already knew that we would sin (we were sinners already!) but He came to help us and to help the Father.

And He lives in us, so why can’t we do it?



Were I and my family wrong in Kentucky? NO! That may have been the first glimpse of Jesus for some of those boys and for some maybe the last.

But I don’t understand what you’re saying. As Christians, doesn’t Jesus live in each of us?

Yes He does and it is our primary responsibility to make sure that others see Him, not us or our personal interpretation of “religion”. Who do we live for? Jesus. Not human founders of human Churches—just Jesus.

So what I’m saying is that first Jesus is without a doubt spiritual and we are without a doubt physical. And there are differences that no one knows better than Jesus Himself.


And secondly that we have been forgiven but not changed. So we have all sinned before and because we’re human we still do. But the forgiveness that we now have is once and for all.

So when we do sin, it’s been forgiven once and for all. In other words Jesus came, lived and died once. He overcame death once and He ascended back into Heaven once. Because He came to become a physical being once

So when a fellow Christian sins then don’t look at it as their personal or spiritual failure, no, just recognize who Jesus has made them to be in Him but that they are only human still, so things may still happen here. Because they have been forgiven once, they WILL go to Heaven so love them because Jesus died for them. So He knew it long ago and that’s why He came and died. They were worth it to Him, so they should be worth it to you too.

The boys at the group home in Kentucky were to us then and people still are to us now, but are they to you?