Tragically light healing

As I look across the Christian landscape, I think it is fair to say concerning sin, "They have healed the wound of my people lightly" (Jer 6:14; 8:11, ESV). . . the depth and complexity and ugliness and danger of sin in professing Christiains is either minimized - since we are already justified - or psychologized as a symptom of woundedness rather than corruption.

This is a tragically light healing. I call it a tragedy because by making life easier for ourselves in minimizing the nature and seriousnes of sin, we become greater victims of it. We are in fact not healing ourselves. Those who say that they already feel bad enoguth without being told about the corruption of indwelling sin misread the path to peace. When our people have notbeen taught well about the real nature of sin and how it works and how to put it to death, most of the miseries people report are not owing to the disease but its symptoms. (Taylor, Justin, and Kapic, Kelly., ed. "John Owen: Overcoming Sin and Temptation." Wheaton, IL: Crossway. 2006. pp11-12)

These words from the Foreward to Overcoming Sin and Temptation describe accurately, I think, the present situation, and our need to go after the real disease.