Cleaning Up Our Acts

Saturday, August 28, 2021

Recently a leader of a large evangelical church body was found to have delivered a sermon which had been written and preached by his colleague. The preacher/administrator apologized and explained his motivation by saying, “I wanted to show people my heart.” To avoid the “we all do that” dismissal of our sinful practice of self-posturing or “fronting”, we can think of examples of men at the gym who may choose cars some women find appealing, and the women with their makeup and revealing clothes, for whatever reasons. I wear a necktie just about everywhere I go. But those who hold the Holy Scriptures in high value know that we humans are sinful by nature and certainly should not want others to see what is truly in our hearts.

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