I wanted to see if I could blog from my phone. So mentioning a book that I am looking forward to reading seemed a simple way to experiment.
I was reading am article in Leadership Magazine by John Ortberg entitled, "The Sin Tamer". In it he makes mention of a book that he believes is worthy of reading every year or so. It is entitled, Not The Way Its Supposed To Be: A Breviary of Sin, by Neil Plantinga. Ortberg references Plantinga describing how we have largely lost awareness of sin; how sin was once something Christians hated, feared, grieved, and fled; now when we see the word it tends to be on menus ("Sinful Chocolate Decadence").
Ortberg contends that we need to thoroughly understand what it is that is bad about sin, which is power to corrupt the goodness of life. Then he quotes Plantinga: "Sin is both the overstepping of a line and the failure to reach it - both transgression and shortcoming. Sin is a missing of the mark, a spoiling of goods, a staining of garments, a hitch in one's gait, a wandering from the path, a fragment of the whole. Sin is what culpably disturbs shalom." How true. How very true.
I'm looking forward to reading all of this book.
Has anybody else read this book? What did you think?
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