Jesus did not come to make us Christian; Jesus came to make us fully human.
––Hans Rookmaaker
A good friend has labeled himself as an "unrepentant sinner." This is infuriating to another friend of mine, so we talked about it for a while the other night. In the end, the label hit me because of the thing against which it is set up. Some might think the opposite of "unrepentant sinner" would be "repentant sinner." I agree. Sadly, though, many Christians instead live as though they are no-longer-sinners. We cover up to look like this, instead of openly and proudly calling ourselves repentant sinners, which is what we are. That's what my friend is really doing: being perfectly honest about who he is. He's being more honest than most of us dare to be. If we do not openly claim to be repentant sinners, then we might as well be unrepentant sinners.
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I was reminded of this C.S. Lewis quote when I was reading this post:
"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."
--The Great Divorce
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