If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.
A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'
Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
Don't you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God's image and endanger an entire generation's understanding of Jesus.
Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.