If the aim of the church is to grow, the way to do it is to make people feel good. And when people discover that there are other ways to feel good, they leave the church they no longer need. The relevant church is sowing the seeds of its own irrelevance, and losing its identity to boot. The big question today has become how to get the baby boomers back, what techniques and methods will do the trick. Polls are taken on what baby boomers want and churches are competing to make sure they get it.
Carl Braaten

SIN

SIN

SIN

  1. Is the transgression of the law # 1Jo 3:4
  2. Is of the devil # 1Jo 3:8 Joh 8:44
  3. All unrighteousness is # 1Jo 5:17
  4. Omission of what we know to be good is # Jas 4:17
  5. Whatever is not of faith is # Ro 14:23
  6. The thought of foolishness is # Pr 24:9
  7. All the imaginations of the unrenewed heart are # Ge 6:5 8:21
  8. DESCRIBED AS 8a) Coming from the heart

    # Mt 15:19

8b) The fruit of lust # Jas 1:15 8c) The sting of death # 1Co 15:56 8d) Rebellion against God # De 9:7 Jos 1:18 8e) Works of darkness # Eph 5:11 8f) Dead works # Heb 6:1 9:14 8g) The abominable thing that God hates # Pr 15:9 Jer 44:4,11 8h) Reproaching the Lord # Nu 15:30 Ps 74:18 8i) Defiling # Pr 30:12 Isa 59:3 8j) Deceitful # Heb 3:13 8k) Disgraceful # Pr 14:34 8l) Often very great # Ex 32:20 1Sa 2:17 8m) Often mighty # Am 5:12 8n) Often manifold # Am 5:12 8o) Often presumptuous # Ps 19:13 8p) Sometimes open and manifest # 1Ti 5:24 8q) Sometimes secret # Ps 90:8 1Ti 5:24 8r) Besetting # Heb 12:1 8s) Like scarlet and crimson # Isa 1:18 8t) Reaching to heaven # Re 18:5 9) Entered into the world by Adam # Ge 3:6,7 Ro 5:12 10) All men are conceived and born in # Ge 5:3 Job 15:14 25:4 Ps 51:5 11) All men are shapen in # Ps 51:5 12) Scripture concludes all under # Ga 3:22 13) No man is without # 1Ki 8:46 Ec 7:20 14) Christ alone was without # 2Co 5:21 Heb 4:15 7:26 1Jo 3:5 15) GOD 15a) Abominates # De 25:16 Pr 6:16-19 15b) Marks # Job 10:14 15c) Remembers # Re 18:5 15d) Is provoked to jealousy by # 1Ki 14:22 15e) Is provoked to anger by # 1Ki 16:2 15f) Alone can forgive # Ex 34:7 Da 9:9 Mic 7:18 Mr 2:7 15g) Recompenses # Jer 16:18 Re 18:6 15h) Punishes # Isa 13:11 Am 3:2 16) The Law 16a) Is transgressed by every # Jas 2:10,11 1Jo 3:4 16b) Gives knowledge of # Ro 3:20 7:7 16c) Shows exceeding sinfulness of # Ro 7:13 16d) Made to restrain # 1Ti 1:9,10 16e) By its strictness stirs up # Ro 7:5,8,11 16f) Is the strength of # 1Co 15:56 16g) Curses those guilty of # Ga 3:10 17) No man can cleanse himself from # Job 9:30,31 Pr 20:9 Jer 2:22 18) No man can atone for # Mic 6:7 19) God has opened a fountain for # Zec 13:1 20) Christ was manifested to take away # Joh 1:29 1Jo 3:5 21) Christ’s blood redeems from # Eph 1:7 22) Christ’s blood cleanses from # 1Jo 1:7 23) SAINTS 23a) Made free from # Ro 6:18 23b) Dead to # Ro 6:2,11 1Pe 2:24 23c) Profess to have ceased from # 1Pe 4:1 23d) Cannot live in # 1Jo 3:9 5:18 23e) Resolve against # Job 34:32 23f) Ashamed of having committed # Ro 6:21 23g) Abhor themselves on account of # Job 42:6 Eze 20:43 23h) Have yet the remains of, in them # Ro 7:17,23 Ga 5:17 24) The fear of God restrains # Ex 20:20 Ps 4:4 Pr 16:6 25) The word of God keeps from # Ps 17:4 119:11 26) The Holy Spirit convinces of # Joh 16:8,9 27) If we say that we have no, we make God a liar # 1Jo 1:10 28) Confusion of face belongs to those guilty of # Da 9:7,8 29) SHOULD BE 29a) Confessed # Job 33:27 Pr 28:13 29b) Mourned over # Ps 38:18 Jer 3:21 29c) Hated # Ps 97:10 Pr 8:13 Am 5:15 29d) Abhorred # Ro 12:9 29e) Put away # Job 11:14 29f) Departed from # Ps 34:14 2Ti 2:19 29g) Avoided even in appearance # 1Th 5:22 29h) Guarded against # Ps 4:4 39:1 29i) Striven against # Heb 12:4 29j) Mortified # Ro 8:13 Col 3:5 29k) Wholly destroyed # Ro 6:6 30) Specially strive against besetting # Heb 12:1 31) Aggravated by neglecting advantages # Lu 12:47 Joh 15:22 32) Guilt of concerning # Job 31:33 Pr 28:13 33) WE SHOULD PRAY TO GOD 33a) To search for, in our hearts # Ps 139:23,24 33b) To make us know our # Job 13:23 33c) To forgive our # Ex 34:9 Lu 11:4 33d) To keep us from # Ps 19:13 33e) To deliver us from # Mt 6:13 33f) To cleanse us from # Ps 51:2 34) Prayer hindered by # Ps 66:18 Isa 59:2 35) Blessings withheld on account of # Jer 5:25 36) THE WICKED 36a) Servants to # Joh 8:34 Ro 6:16 36b) Dead in # Eph 2:1 36c) Guilty of, in everything they do # Pr 21:4 Eze 21:24 36d) Plead necessity for # 1Sa 13:11,12 36e) Excuse # Ge 3:12,13 1Sa 15:13-15 36f) Encourage themselves in # Ps 64:5 36g) Defy God in committing # Isa 5:18,19 36h) Boast of # Isa 3:9 36i) Make a mock at # Pr 14:9 36j) Expect impunity in # Ps 10:11 50:21 94:7 36k) Cannot cease from # 2Pe 2:14 36l) Heap up # Ps 78:17 Isa 30:1 36m) Encouraged in, by prosperity # Job 21:7-15 Pr 10:16 36n) Led by despair to continue in # Jer 2:25 18:12 36o) Try to conceal, from God # Ge 3:8,10 Job 31:33 36p) Throw the blame of, on God # Ge 3:12 Jer 7:10 36q) Throw the blame of, on others # Ge 3:12,13 Ex 32:22-24 36r) Tempt others to # Ge 3:6 1Ki 16:2 21:25 Pr 1:10-14 36s) Delight in those who commit # Ps 10:3 Ho 7:3 Ro 1:32 36t) Shall bear the shame of # Eze 16:52 37) Shall find out the wicked # Nu 32:23 38) Ministers should warn the wicked to forsake # Eze 33:9 Da 4:27 39) LEADS TO 39a) Shame # Ro 6:21 39b) Disquiet # Ps 38:3 39c) Disease # Job 20:11 40) The ground was cursed on account of # Ge 3:17,18 41) Toil and sorrow originated in # Ge 3:16,17,19 Job 14:1 42) Excludes from heaven # 1Co 6:9,10 Ga 5:19-21 Eph 5:5 Re 21:27 43) When finished brings forth death # Jas 1:15 44) Death, the wages of # Ro 6:23 45) Death, the punishment of # Ge 2:17 Eze 18:4