Podcast: 2025-11-02: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Sin – Breaking God’s Law
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2025-11-02: Pastor Mark Quist – Discipleship: Sin – Breaking God’s Law
We are turning a page, a rather significant one. We move from Genesis 1-2 to Genesis 3. And so many things change. God nor his love changes, we change. As sin enters the world, we begin to realize that ‘things aren’t the way they are supposed to be.’ We begin to struggle in so many ways as sin affects (infects) every aspect of human existence.
Genesis 1-3 explains so much on a fundamental level. We can recognize goodness, even taste it at times… and yet, we see and experience so much brokenness. Not only that which is outside us, around us, also within us. So what went wrong? How are we to understand our sinful condition and our resulting sin?
Many approaches to understanding it come from God’s word and from our own experiences. Over the next 4 weeks we will explore 4 understandings of sin: lawlessness, missing the mark, total depravity, and foolishness.
Don’t be afraid. This journey is necessary. As we understand the depth of our sin, we will understand the depth of God’s love. The more we know about ourselves, the more we will know God. And the more we know God, the more we will know ourselves. And God is good, gracious, and compassionate. So we are in good hands so to speak – Do not be afraid.
Our culture doesn’t like to talk about sin. And it’s too bad. We like to think we are pretty good, and that’s not so good either. In our avoidance of the conversation of sin, our hiding from the truth of sin, just may be holding us back from greater unity, community, courtesy, humor, and finding much common ground with others. It also keeps us from having a gracious attitude toward others and toward ourselves. (Thank you David Zahl, Low Anthropology)
So let’s dive in, and talk about sin,
Pastor Mark
United States
