Today is Palm Sunday. According to tradition, today we celebrate Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem. As we celebrate, we do well to remember that while peace prevails in Heaven, strife still prevails on Earth.
Yes, we should daily give thanks for the forgiveness of our sins, and admonish ourselves to try to minimize our sins. This is for the health of our souls, and also for the civility of society. Just because we are redeemed by Christ doesn’t mean that we should sin with abandon, which doesn’t do anyone any good.
This is why I’ve never grasped the logic of Mardi Gras. You’re about to repent from your sins during Lent, so go ahead with the drunken orgy of sins ‘while you can’? No, I don’t think that’s what the Bible is saying.
“Fools mock at sin,
But among the upright there is favor” - Proverbs 14:9
To be fair, however, I don't believe revelers at Mardi Gras are exactly striking a Scriptural pose!
I am struck by the prideful tones of many evangelicals in particular. Their joy at their own redemption often comes across as an arrogant pretense of moral superiority.
That strikes me as the same hubris that is so annoying in the self anointed secular "elites".
Exactly right! And the smugness of some of these evangelicals is a major turnoff to many secular people, just as the smugness of self-styled “elites” is repulsive.
Yes, we should daily give thanks for the forgiveness of our sins, and admonish ourselves to try to minimize our sins. This is for the health of our souls, and also for the civility of society. Just because we are redeemed by Christ doesn’t mean that we should sin with abandon, which doesn’t do anyone any good.
This is why I’ve never grasped the logic of Mardi Gras. You’re about to repent from your sins during Lent, so go ahead with the drunken orgy of sins ‘while you can’? No, I don’t think that’s what the Bible is saying.
“Fools mock at sin,
But among the upright there is favor” - Proverbs 14:9
There is no Scriptural logic to Mardi Gras.
To be fair, however, I don't believe revelers at Mardi Gras are exactly striking a Scriptural pose!
I am struck by the prideful tones of many evangelicals in particular. Their joy at their own redemption often comes across as an arrogant pretense of moral superiority.
That strikes me as the same hubris that is so annoying in the self anointed secular "elites".
Exactly right! And the smugness of some of these evangelicals is a major turnoff to many secular people, just as the smugness of self-styled “elites” is repulsive.