John Stott once put it like this:
“Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony.”
Sin disrupts our fellowship with God. Fellowship with God disrupts our relationship with sin.
We grow in our faith by learning about God, getting to know Him more intimately, and exercising our faith in a life of increasing obedience. The way that we move from knowledge to growth is through obedience-based discipleship.
Biblical faith is our willing response to God, expressed inwardly by submissive trust, and outwardly by obedience.
A priest in the Bible is a go-between, mediator, intercessor, or a liaison – someone to stand between people and God. The Bible says we need someone like this because unholy people cannot stand before a perfectly holy God on their own merit. Jesus is the perfect Man for the job.
Central Reflections 