The S-word

I'm going to tell you a secret.

It's a word, one the "good" people say they don't know. They're lying, though. Everyone has to deal with it one way or another.

It's certainly not a word you'd want to use in polite company. In fact some churches never use it, and some preachers take a lot of pride in the fact that they've never used the word, and they probably never will.

Of course, we mere mortals should forget we ever heard it, and under no circumstances are we to say the S-word, especially to someone not already in our club.

What word am I talking about? Lean close and then I'll tell you.

It's sin.

It's not what people want to hear. You won't build a 10000-member congregation talking about sin. You can't become rich and famous or have a string of $10 billion campuses or travel the world in private planes by telling people to repent. The question was never, "Is the Gospel helpful?" but "Is it true?"

Is it true?