Many Christians have a basic desire to live a holy life but have come to believe they simply cannot do it. They have struggled for years with particular sins or deficiencies of character. While not living in gross sin, they have more or less given up ever attaining a life of holiness and have settled down to a life of moral mediocrity with which neither they nor God are pleased." (Bridges 2004 p30)
Hands up who agree. Hands up who have done anything about it? Hands up all those who have been wavering as they do not fully understand or perhaps accept the issues surrounding sin and its consequences. More so, hands up anyone who read this as I did i.e., in a pernickety manner. The points I raise in this book may seem minor, but I hope to show that they are not. We may have had similar thoughts but have never shared them with anyone for fear of...fear of what? We all believe the same, don't we?