The gospel gives you psychological freedom to handle the wrong things that you will do. You won’t have to deny, spin, or repress the truth about yourself. These things don’t make it impossible to know who you are. Only with the support of hearing Jesus say, “You are capable of terrible things, but I am absolutely, unconditionally committed to you,” will you be able to be honest with yourself.-Tim Keller from the most recent Journal of Biblical Counseling.
Michael Mckinley, writing for the the Church Matters blog responds with why it's important for him to be honest about his own sin with the people in his church. He says:
-- It promotes the gospel of grace. I am a sinner in need of a savior.
-- It encourages them to trust Christ ultimately, not me.
-- It encourages other Christians to be honest about themselves and promotes a
culture of transparency in the church.
-- It protects me from nurturing the hypocrisy that hardens our hearts.
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