I loved the imaginary conversation you staged there. And I believe something along those lines can easily happen too from someone seeking spiritual counseling (or confession, in the Catholic Church).
I suspect one of the great obstacles to getting specific about sin is the temptation to see others' sin as the *real* sins, something that Jesus dramatized in the Gospels and that easily leads us to blur our own sins. And it's so easy because the media keeps feeding us images of real, awful sins—sins that are out there, far from the nooks and crannies of our own hearts.
I loved the imaginary conversation you staged there. And I believe something along those lines can easily happen too from someone seeking spiritual counseling (or confession, in the Catholic Church).
I suspect one of the great obstacles to getting specific about sin is the temptation to see others' sin as the *real* sins, something that Jesus dramatized in the Gospels and that easily leads us to blur our own sins. And it's so easy because the media keeps feeding us images of real, awful sins—sins that are out there, far from the nooks and crannies of our own hearts.
Good insights. Thanks!