Deeper Roots

A RESPONSE TO “LIVING PURELY IN AN IMPURE WORLD” BY JIM BINNEY

Binney starts off the book talking about the basics of sin in our lives.  He says almost right away that there are only three causes for problems in the human experience: sin, sickness, and Satan, or a combination of these (p. 10).  This caught me off guard.  Right away I noticed that something was left out.  What about the problems that happen in our life apart from those three things?  What happens if something inconvenient and unexpected happens in our life and its cause cannot be relegated to either sickness or sin?  Do we automatically assume that Satan is the instigator of our problems?  I think we should reconsider this. (more…)

Overview

Ed Welch dissects the idea of our sin diving into how our sin affects us and what it looks like in our lives.  In the introduction he looks at sin as our deepest problem.  He uses Paul’s letter to the Ephesians as a springboard for his theology of sin.  Welch starts out by identifying that sin is not the first thing that most of us think of when we try to point out our biggest problem.  But he quickly reminds us that sin is what leaves us dead.  There is nothing else that does that level of damage to us. (more…)