9 min
Audio Blog 058: Does Shame Get a Bad Rap? Everyday Conversations Podcast
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- Christianity
It should surprise no one that unbelievers proudly boast of perversions and habitual sins that in the past would have embarrassed the most decadent. And some of our readers may be old enough to remember when "shameless" was one of the worst criticisms you could aim at someone. This decline in public life is bad enough, but in her most recent blog FBB Executive Director Julie Lane points out that shamelessness is too often lauded among Christians. It is time, she says, for God's people to realize that He designed us to feel shame for sin, and that we do nothing less than our Christian duty when we call brothers and sisters to repentance, even if it means shaming them.
It should surprise no one that unbelievers proudly boast of perversions and habitual sins that in the past would have embarrassed the most decadent. And some of our readers may be old enough to remember when "shameless" was one of the worst criticisms you could aim at someone. This decline in public life is bad enough, but in her most recent blog FBB Executive Director Julie Lane points out that shamelessness is too often lauded among Christians. It is time, she says, for God's people to realize that He designed us to feel shame for sin, and that we do nothing less than our Christian duty when we call brothers and sisters to repentance, even if it means shaming them.
9 min