Tonight, the teens at my church here in Bloomington started a new Bible study. I got to go to the class to help out and be the second adult in the room. :) The Bible study is a series of videos followed by a short lesson from the Bible. The guy teaching the class, Luke, did a great job being relateable to the teens. Granted, he and I were teenagers ourselves just a couple of short years ago, but I still think he did a good job trying to talk to them as equals rather than talking down to them like a parent might end up doing. It was great. One of the things the video talked about was making compromises. As humans, we like to sin. However, many of us feel guilt when we sin, so we make compromises for it and end up sinning anyways.
Luke 7:13-14 (KJV) says, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." This means to me that making compromises only leads to destruction. There is a right way to live your life, and that is to live it like Jesus. Yes, we have faults, and yes, we will mess up sometimes. That's why God gave us grace. He's forgiving, and all you have to do is ask for that forgiveness, and he is faithful and just to forgive us.
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