This week we’ve been busy with Bible Boot Camp, our annual high school and middle school day camp. Each day the morning consists of two hours of intense Bible teaching, a lunch break and then we spend the afternoon doing some arranged activity of games at the park or something similar. This year’s study is on sin and repentance from 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” I was very convicted listening to Bobby teach on confession. He asked the students, “How many of you confess your sins on a daily basis?” Barely any students raised their hands. Then he asked, “How many of you sin ever day?” Every hand went up. “Ah” he said, “We’re all hypocrites here, aren’t we. We know we sin, but we won’t even confess it.”

This sunk in as I thought about it throughout the day. Most Christians including myself do not take sin as seriously as we ought. Sin is so excusable to those who have been saved because we think it doesn’t have a hold on us anymore. But really when we sin and don’t repent we are being deformed from Christ’s image into Satan’s. Bobby talked about some verses in John 8 which describe Satan as the Father of lies. None of us would ever want to be called a child of Satan’s, but we also will not confront our sin and confess it to God and others. We always like to think we can be somewhere in the middle, even though there is no such place. I thought of Paul’s rhetorical question in Romans 6