Are We A Sinner Or “The Man The Light Shines Through?” – Bible study

Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde once remarked, I can resist anything but temptation (source). He obviously understood human weakness and frailty. The follower of Christ who yields to temptation, soon becomes separated from God (Isaiah 59:1-2). He or she is then classified as one who has missed the mark (Strongs 266) a sinner (1 John 3:4).

By contrast, a little child once overheard his parents talking about one of the figures in a stained glass window of a church building. He curiously asked them if they were referring to the man the light shines through? His child-like remark was an imaginative description of a saint (Matthew 5:14-16).

Do our lives exhibit the characteristics of the world (1 John 2:15-16), or a clarity of purpose and sacrificial love as Jesus did? (Luke 19:9-10; Romans 5:6).

Are we a sinner or the man the light shines through?

Lets think about it! And then make any necessary character adjustments.