MICHAELMAS 2003
From the editor…
Susceptible to Sin
When was the last time you heard a sermon or teaching about the danger
of sin?
This query brings to mind a story about football coach Erk Russell of
Georgia Southern College. He arranged for a couple of rather rough
hewn boys to burst into a routine team meeting once and hurl a writhing,
hissing, six-foot-long rattlesnake onto a table in front of the squad.
“Every-one screamed and scattered,” Russell recalls. “I told them,
when cocaine comes into a room, you’re not nearly as apt to leave as when
that rattlesnake comes in. But they’ll both kill you!”
Point made, coach.
And sin is similarly threatening to the Christian. It is why we
are to pray daily to be delivered from evil, because at any moment we could
internally be led into evil through our own sin, or externally by an assault
from the world or the devil.
Sin isn’t just prevalent in our lives, it is perilous. Makes one
feel wobbly-kneed left to oneself, calls one to pray to Christ, and to ask
Christian sisters and brothers for help. Sounds like the posture of
a disciple to me.
The Rev. Canon Dr. Kendall S. Harmon
Contact Dr Harmon by e-mail at ksharmon@mindspring.com
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