Wednesday 2 April 2008

SINNERS

'If sinners are disorientated, then they need reorientation. If their lives are characterized by death, loathing, and falsehood, then only the life, love and truth of God can set them free. If they are divided, broken, and self-alienated, then only Christ, torn apart and broken in their place, can restore them to God and to integrity. If they are self-loathing narcissists, then only the breath of the Spirit can replace hatred with love and self-obsession with adoration of God. Sin goes deep. It is complex and painful, tragic and wicked. Grace alone can reach the sinner, and love alone can win.'
David Field in David Peterson (Ed.), Holimness & Sexuality, p.87.