What an absolutely awful comment that has to be made about the “Christian community”. He’s totally right but what a shame that the “Christian community” has to “recover” an appreciation for it. My fear is that there will be a pathetically small portion of the “Christian community” that will respond. Narrow is the way is becoming all too real.
And the gate is even narrower.
(Is that a word?) LOL!
I agree. Unfortunately, it seems that the assurance that sins can be forgiven leads many to a lack of concern for sin, or even the silent agreement that "sin" is just a formal category. Certainly on FR, I often find people who identify themselves as Christians taking the position that fornication is the proper activity of certain stages of life (before marriage, between marriages, after marriage) and that the concept that this is a sin is simply out of the question.
If a good church-going Baptist gentleman ... knows his Bible, teaches Sunday School, works on the disaster-relief team ... can look back on the screwing-around of his college years with nostalgic enjoyment, it certainly doesn't seem that he considers it a sin for which he should repent. What does it tell adolescents/young adults, if the teachers in their lives (parents, school teachers, church leaders) convey the impression that sexually-active single years were the best time in their lives?