Consequences of Individual Sin in Community Faith
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1. "Individual sin affects the whole community of faith. Individual personal sin still can affect the whole community of faith." [02:19] (14 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "The first thing to note here is that all of Israel is on the hook for one man's actions. All of Israel suffers and experiences consequences and takes blame for this one sin from Achan. Look at verse one again. The people of Israel broke faith, even though it's one guy who's sinning. It says, no, the Israel was unfaithful and the anger of the Lord burned against them." [11:00] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "I think that there are some cultural dimensions some cultural orientations that we in the 21st century North America reading this might kind of find a little different a little foreign most of us many of us even come from a cultural orientation that is very individualistic I know especially I will speak for myself as an American man we love our individualistic we love our individual freedoms responsibilities you know possessions and things like that and culturally speaking we get that way the United States Canada I believe Australia is is very like this not so in other parts of the world in particular those that have lived or spent time in East Asia in places like China and Korea and Japan you will know that not every culture is like this there are some cultures that are much more important to us than others and I think that's the key to what I'm trying to say here and I think that's what I'm trying to say here in this conversation is that some cultures are much more collectivist in this way where we all feel the burden of responsibility where we all kind of know hey my actions fit into a bigger picture of my community and big decisions even things that we would consider personal decisions about what you study or what kind of career you have or who you marry we think of those often as oh this is my my personal decision. But in other cultures, it would not occur to people to keep that to themselves. It would not even cross someone's mind not to run that by their family, their circle, their community." [14:41] (100 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "The antidote to the infection of sin is to consecrate ourselves to the Lord because individual sin affects the whole community of faith and there's something interesting that happens because the way that God responds to Joshua in saying hey get up and get up by the way is not it's not necessarily a rebuke God is not saying get up off your faiths how dare you he what he's saying is like okay good you're not going to get up off your faiths you're not going to get up off your faiths let's not wallow in self-pity let's go to action we've got work to do get up we've got a plan and we're going to start it's good that you're here it's good that you're confessing it's good that you're seeking my direction now let's get to work that's what he's saying here." [24:22] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Conviction of sin should produce immediate and sincere repentance. As soon as you know that you have sin in your life, as soon as you know this is an area where I have been disobedient, this is an area where I am not obeying God fully, that should produce in us immediate and sincere repentance. Not like Achan did, where he waited until he was caught and called out, but in a way that says, you know what? I want to confess this." [32:39] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6. "We should practice accountability within the community of faith. And this, as I said before, is a little bit counter-cultural for us. This goes against some of our tendencies to say, well, that's a private matter. That's between them. That's between them and God. That's their personal decision. But if we really truly believe that individualist sin affects the whole community of faith, it is an act of love when we call out our brothers and sisters in love, in community, kindly, gently, with compassion and grace, reminding them of the truth of faith." [34:39] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7. "Corporate confession should come with acts of consecration. This is a strange thing, especially in most of our faith traditions, where even having a corporate confession and a time of corporate consecration, it feels strange. Sometimes we, especially if you come from a liturgical background, you go, hang on, I'm confessing sins, but I didn't, I didn't do that. That's not on me. Or we confess sins of our culture or our country, national sins, where we say, God, forgive us for this sin. Forgive us because we have been disobedient as Canadians. Sometimes that feels strange because we go, hang on, that's not on me. That's not my fault. I didn't do anything wrong." [36:48] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8. "We need to understand that sin in our midst affects everyone. Even my individual sins, my individual choices, my personal decisions still affect those around me. My brothers and sisters in Christ, my neighbors, my family, my choices affect others around me. And we need to remember that." [32:39] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "The first thing to note here is that all of Israel is on the hook for one man's actions. All of Israel suffers and experiences consequences and takes blame for this one sin from Achan. Look at verse one again. The people of Israel broke faith, even though it's one guy who's sinning. It says, no, the Israel was unfaithful and the anger of the Lord burned against them." [11:00] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "I think that there are some cultural dimensions some cultural orientations that we in the 21st century North America reading this might kind of find a little different a little foreign most of us many of us even come from a cultural orientation that is very individualistic I know especially I will speak for myself as an American man we love our individualistic we love our individual freedoms responsibilities you know possessions and things like that and culturally speaking we get that way the United States Canada I believe Australia is is very like this not so in other parts of the world in particular those that have lived or spent time in East Asia in places like China and Korea and Japan you will know that not every culture is like this there are some cultures that are much more important to us than others and I think that's the key to what I'm trying to say here and I think that's what I'm trying to say here in this conversation is that some cultures are much more collectivist in this way where we all feel the burden of responsibility where we all kind of know hey my actions fit into a bigger picture of my community and big decisions even things that we would consider personal decisions about what you study or what kind of career you have or who you marry we think of those often as oh this is my my personal decision. But in other cultures, it would not occur to people to keep that to themselves. It would not even cross someone's mind not to run that by their family, their circle, their community." [14:41] (100 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "The antidote to the infection of sin is to consecrate ourselves to the Lord because individual sin affects the whole community of faith and there's something interesting that happens because the way that God responds to Joshua in saying hey get up and get up by the way is not it's not necessarily a rebuke God is not saying get up off your faiths how dare you he what he's saying is like okay good you're not going to get up off your faiths you're not going to get up off your faiths let's not wallow in self-pity let's go to action we've got work to do get up we've got a plan and we're going to start it's good that you're here it's good that you're confessing it's good that you're seeking my direction now let's get to work that's what he's saying here." [24:22] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Conviction of sin should produce immediate and sincere repentance. As soon as you know that you have sin in your life, as soon as you know this is an area where I have been disobedient, this is an area where I am not obeying God fully, that should produce in us immediate and sincere repentance. Not like Achan did, where he waited until he was caught and called out, but in a way that says, you know what? I want to confess this." [32:39] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6. "We should practice accountability within the community of faith. And this, as I said before, is a little bit counter-cultural for us. This goes against some of our tendencies to say, well, that's a private matter. That's between them. That's between them and God. That's their personal decision. But if we really truly believe that individualist sin affects the whole community of faith, it is an act of love when we call out our brothers and sisters in love, in community, kindly, gently, with compassion and grace, reminding them of the truth of faith." [34:39] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7. "Corporate confession should come with acts of consecration. This is a strange thing, especially in most of our faith traditions, where even having a corporate confession and a time of corporate consecration, it feels strange. Sometimes we, especially if you come from a liturgical background, you go, hang on, I'm confessing sins, but I didn't, I didn't do that. That's not on me. Or we confess sins of our culture or our country, national sins, where we say, God, forgive us for this sin. Forgive us because we have been disobedient as Canadians. Sometimes that feels strange because we go, hang on, that's not on me. That's not my fault. I didn't do anything wrong." [36:48] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8. "We need to understand that sin in our midst affects everyone. Even my individual sins, my individual choices, my personal decisions still affect those around me. My brothers and sisters in Christ, my neighbors, my family, my choices affect others around me. And we need to remember that." [32:39] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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