Sunday, February 08, 2009

Diagnosing Sin in Your Life

When we face struggles in life, we must consider the possibility that it might be because of sin. After all, God does remove fellowship from those who are in sin (cf. Psalm 66:18; Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2; Proverbs 28:9; 1 Peter 3:7).

Here are some questions to help us explore sin in our lives.

  1. Is there known sin which you have not confessed?
  2. Are you living in consistent sin patterns without sensitivity and confession?
  3. Are you hardened to known sin in your life? Do you care about sin?
  4. Are there areas in which you are resisting accountability in dealing with known sin? This often indicates that you know something is wrong with what you are doing.
  5. Are you cutting yourself off from relationships with fellow believers because of the way you are living?
  6. Are you resistant to being challenged about areas in your life?
  7. Are you sinning against your conscience by doing things that you are not confident are godly?
  8. Are you daily examining your life and confessing known sin?
  9. Are you striving after holiness, however imperfect you may be?

Please help me out with this list. Are there other questions that should be here? Could some of these questions be refined?

1 comment:

Jeremy Conn said...

10. Are you sensitive to the Spirit in replacing sinful habits with biblical thinking and action?