[Pan_Yan]

Numbers are very hard to determine. A large portion of the membership of most churches seldom or never attend. Of those that do attend only a small part tithe, which is a testament to their trust in God. So the author is probably right about hundreds of thousands of active church members living in sin. And you are probably correct about millions of total church members living in sin.

I thought this article was interesting:

...we are no longer the moral majority. We are a prophetic minority.

[metmom]

Numbers are very hard to determine. A large portion of the membership of most churches seldom or never attend. Of those that do attend only a small part tithe, which is a testament to their trust in God. So the author is probably right about hundreds of thousands of active church members living in sin. And you are probably correct about millions of total church members living in sin.

Thanks for pointing that out. *church members* does not by default mean truly born again believers.

Every church is filled with saved and unsaved. It's only the percentages which vary. Some have more saved, some have less.

But the other point raised is also valid. Jesus said lusting after a woman is the same as committing adultery (and the same applies to women who lust after another man), and that hating another is the same as murder.

The reason is that it's only a matter of how much self-control an individual has to avoid crossing the line from the mental to the physical.

Thank God for His grace that He's so willing to forgive and that our works do not either gain or lose us our salvation.