A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
Interpretation
Understanding sin enhances our comprehension of the significance of the cross.
This quote emphasizes that a shallow grasp of sin leads to a limited understanding of the redemptive power of the cross in Christian theology. The implication is that both concepts are interlinked, and a deeper insight into one can enrich our understanding of the other, highlighting the importance of studying both aspects in the context of faith.
In practice
In a sermon about redemption, this quote could underscore the importance of understanding sin.
Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
We shake with joy, we shake with grief. _x000D_ What a time they have, these two _x000D_ housed as they are in the same body.
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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