{"id":796,"date":"2025-10-28T15:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:55:41","slug":"a-test-for-the-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"A Test for the Brave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A Test for the Brave<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Divide a sheet of paper into 3 columns. Label one \u201cReally <\/span><\/span><\/span>Bad\u201d, The second, \u201cNot Too Bad\u201d, and the third, \u201cCould be Guilty\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With that in front of you read Romans 1:21-32. Write each sin mentioned in the appropriate columns. \u201cCould Be Guilty\u201d is for those things that you might have done or do. Be honest! No one but you will see this list.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I bet you had very few listed in both column 1 and 3. How many were in both 2 and 3? We usually see ourselves as \u201cpretty good\u201d and not a lot of murderers will read this.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In our society, crimes are divided into Felonies and Misdemeanors. Misdemeanors are less serious offenses, bringing fines and community service hours. Felonies on the other hand, often bring jail or prison time and affect you for life. A felon can\u2019t serve in the military, can\u2019t vote, can\u2019t possess a firearm. They have difficulty finding a place to live, getting a job, long probation, and often remain under the watchful eye of police.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Felonies are seen as major crimes. Misdemeanors as minor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At times, I think Church folk do something similar with sin. We see some sins as major sins. Others as minor. Some with deep condemnation. Others with minor condemnation. Some with lifetime consequences. Some with\u00a0short-term consequences.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am not sure God sees things as Felonies and Misdemeanors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is a division we make in our minds, although the Bible does not make that division.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the Bible makes list of sins it does not divide things up between what we consider serious and non-serious. It mixes them all together. In your list at the beginning, you divided the Biblical list of sin into serious and non-serious. God doesn\u2019t do that. He sees them as all serious since they all harm his children.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What should we do? Repent. Not the \u201cfeel sorry\u201d and go our way, but the Biblical way of \u201cchanging your thinking\u201d! Stop seeing them as Misdemeanors and see them as Felonies. Then ask Jesus to help you change your life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, Tear up this paper into little pieces and throw it away where no one can find it. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A Test for the Brave Divide a sheet of paper into 3 columns. Label one \u201cReally Bad\u201d, The second, \u201cNot Too Bad\u201d, and the third, \u201cCould be Guilty\u201d. With that in front of you read Romans 1:21-32. Write each sin mentioned in the appropriate columns. \u201cCould Be Guilty\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_front_end_style_editor":"no","ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-different-drummer","category-kingdom-living","category-real-church","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calvinlangton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}