Sin Is Never Pretty

by Zeke Flores

Sin in the church is never pretty. It's usually always a holdout from a way of life that should have been left behind. But sin is stubborn, and so are we, and we can tend to cling to it despite our best intentions. So, Paul reminds us that there is a new and better way, not only to recognize sin in others, but also in dealing with it in ourselves for the good of the local Christian community.

A powerful incentive is to really believe that you are, in fact, unleavened. You were remade pure and without corruption. What you do with that re-creation is up to you.

"Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (I Corinthians 5:7-8).