A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
Interpretation
Understanding sin enhances our comprehension of the significance of the cross.
This quote emphasizes that a shallow grasp of sin leads to a limited understanding of the redemptive power of the cross in Christian theology. The implication is that both concepts are interlinked, and a deeper insight into one can enrich our understanding of the other, highlighting the importance of studying both aspects in the context of faith.
In practice
In a sermon about redemption, this quote could underscore the importance of understanding sin.
Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved -still warm -too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?
What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.
...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361
Being is seeing in the human dimension.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.
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