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Sin and God’s Love

Sin and God’s Love. Assignment Do Activity A on page 98. http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_JtiNF-mi0. Sin and God’s Love. Genesis 3 The Fall of Man. Sin and God’s Love. Objectives: Examine 2 images of sin that are frequently used in Scripture: Missing the mark Hardness of heart

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Sin and God’s Love

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  1. Sin and God’s Love • Assignment • Do Activity A on page 98. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_JtiNF-mi0

  2. Sin and God’s Love • Genesis 3 • The Fall of Man

  3. Sin and God’s Love Objectives: • Examine 2 images of sin that are frequently used in Scripture: • Missing the mark • Hardness of heart • Appreciate that in Christianity the primary message about sin is one of forgiveness

  4. Sin and God’s Love Objectives: • Realize that distinction among types of sin is intended to help people overcome sin • Understand that social sin refers to behavior patterns, values, and social structures that encourage or support sin in a society

  5. Selfishness Ancient wisdom often pointed to selfishness as the root of sin, a misguided placing of our will and desires above that of God and the needs of others.

  6. Sin • Assignment: • Read Romans 1: 18-32. Describe how this reading applies to our culture today?

  7. Sin

  8. Sin An on-going process of alienation and dehumanization that separates us from God and one another.

  9. Sin has a ripple effect

  10. Alienation • Sin alienates because it separates us from God and from one another. • Sin is an offense against God. It is a failure to respond to God’s love. • Sin also injures the entire human community. It plagues our world and our environment. When we sin we pollute.

  11. What does it mean to be fully human?

  12. Dehumanization • Sin also dehumanizes us because when we sin we become less than human. • When we sin be keep ourselves from being the very best that we can be and what we were meant to be. • Sin violates God’s intention for creation

  13. Two Images of Sin From Scripture Missing the Mark Hardness of Heart

  14. Missing the Mark • Ultimately the “mark” we aim for is God. • When we sin, or miss the mark when we settle for behavior that does not reflect the love for God, others and ourselves. • Missing your goal, not being the person you were created to be • Becoming less than human; de-humanizing

  15. Hardness of Heart • A “hard heart” is a turning inward. • According to scripture, sin has as much to do with our” attitudes as with our actions, with our being as with our behavior. • “Only MY opinion matters; only MY desires matter

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