{"id":718,"date":"2004-05-23T16:38:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=718"},"modified":"2004-05-23T16:38:31","modified_gmt":"2004-05-23T21:38:31","slug":"sin-shy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Sin-shy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Brianna, yet another guest blogger.  My website is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonderblossom.com\">Wonderblossom.<\/a>  Today I want to talk about sin.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I was camping on the Sunshine Coast with my in-laws and one of the many things we discussed was sin.  We talked about the fact that my husband feels his parents didn&#8217;t really talk about or emphasize sin while they were raising him.  It&#8217;s not really hard for us to mention the word &#8220;sin&#8221;, to discuss it, or to openly &#8211; not to mention verbally &#8211; recognize it in our lives and try to correct it.  His parents were raised in a way that over-emphasized sin and used it in a manipulative, unbiblical way, so they were reacting to that.  My husband&#8217;s mom and dad realized that one thing they do is that they often say that something &#8220;doesn&#8217;t feel right&#8221; instead of saying something is a sin. One of the results of this is that my husband doesn&#8217;t know how to talk about sin.  I was raised in a non-Christian family, so I never learned how to talk abot sin, either. That&#8217;s an area we struggle with in our marriage and in our personal relationships with Christ.  <\/p>\n<p>Today at church we realized that sin is almost never discussed from the pulpit, either.  We confess our sins in the liturgy every Sunday, but that&#8217;s about it.  We also rarely hear other people talk about sin in a <i>personal<\/i> way.  We started to wonder whether it&#8217;s a generational thing.  Were your parents sin-shy?  Are you sin-shy?  How do you deal with sin in your life?  In your marriage? Do you talk about it? Do you use the word &#8220;sin&#8221; or do you use a euphemism?  Are you willing to tell other people who are close to you that they are sinning?  How do you do that?  When you say the word &#8220;sin&#8221; with regards to yourself, what emotions do you feel?  Are you comfortable speaking about sin?  Do you  use sin as a tool for manipulation? Do other people around you talk about sin?  If so, how?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d really (<i>really, really<\/i>) love to hear what others have to say on this topic.  Discuss away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Brianna, yet another guest blogger. My website is called Wonderblossom. Today I want to talk about sin. Last week I was camping on the Sunshine Coast with my in-laws and one of the many things we discussed was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=718\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-bA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}