1. brokeness
2. RIGHT AND WRONG - THE MORAL ASPECT OF SIN
2.1. Understanding the difference between right and wrong
2.1.1. What is right and wrong?
2.1.1.1. Postmodernism and the lack of objective truth
2.1.1.1.1. SIN ACCORDING TO POSTMODERNISM
2.1.1.2. Modernism and easily attainable scientifically measurable truth
2.1.1.2.1. SIN ACCORDING TO MODERNISM
2.1.1.3. Christian perspective: what pleases God
2.2. Willfully choosing wrong
2.3. Ignoring the potential consequence
3. ??
4. characteristics
4.1. dulled conscience
5. Forgiveness
5.1. regret
6. CONSEQUENCES
6.1. Personal
6.2. Moral
6.3. Legal
6.4. Social
6.5. Environmental
7. SIN IN POPULAR CULTURE
8. Repentance
9. Expecting all to be forgiven in the 'eleventh hour'
10. Enjoyment, thrill, personal gain
11. Choosing to do what you know or feel is wrong anyway
12. Sins of the flesh; lying, cheating, stealing for personal gain; profanity, substance abuse, and other forms of peer pressure
13. "Do as I say, not as I do"
14. HYPOCRISY
14.1. Any misdeeds done during the week will be forgiven simply by going to church
15. THE CHURCH
15.1. Hellfire and brimstone preaching
15.2. Inescapable damnation
15.3. High Profile Leadership Scandals
15.4. Focus on God's wrath rather than His love
15.4.1. an unforgiving God
15.5. hypersensitivity to anything (or anyone) that looks like it(they) might be sin(ful), connected with sinful behavior, or the phenomenon of "someone who sinned really bad did that once or listened to that kind of music so therefore it must also be sinful"
15.6. As body of the Great Forgiver (hands, feet) Welcoming people who are chock full of sin (not pretending we're outside it)
15.6.1. humility
16. DEFINITIONS
16.1. Anything that causes physical, emotional, or mental harm to ourselves or others
16.2. Bad habits
16.3. Personal "indulgences"
16.4. Falling short of God's perfection (Calvin)
16.5. A willful transgression against a known law of God (Wesley)
16.6. Rd
16.7. choosing something besides God
17. THE EXPERIENCE OF SIN
17.1. SHAME OF FAILURE
17.1.1. Disappointment with self
17.1.2. Sense of personal weakness
17.1.3. Fear of recurrence
17.2. CONFUSION
17.2.1. Lack of perspective
17.2.2. Is what I did really so bad?
17.2.3. Does it make me a bad person?
17.3. Sense of Loss
17.3.1. will God really forgive me again?
18. THE PORTRAYAL OF SIN
18.1. EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
18.1.1. THE DEVIL, HORNS, FIRE!!!!
18.2. EXCITING & DESIRABLE
18.3. NO BIG DEAL
18.3.1. "Little white lies"
18.3.2. Everybody else does it
19. BIBLICAL EMPHASES
19.1. OT
19.1.1. Genesis - Curse
19.1.2. Prophets - Excess
19.1.2.1. Material Excess
19.1.2.2. Ignoring the orphan and the widow
19.2. NT
19.2.1. James - Omission