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# The Form That Sin Takes
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2012115the-form-that-sin-takes/
- Published: 2012-11-05T18:00:14.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:29:19.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

There are certain sins that get a lot more attention than others. I find this advice by Martyn Lloyd-Jones very helpful as we think about how we react to those who come into church who have committed sins that may be a big deal to us. Lloyd-Jones is speaking to preachers, but I think there’s a wider application here.

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> Having spent the first part of my adult life as a physician in medicine, I have often been interested in the difference between the work of the physician and the work of the preacher … How does the physical deal with his patient? Well, the first thing he does is to ask the patient to give an account of his symptoms and his troubles — his aches and pains, where it is, how long he has had it, has it varied, etc. All this has to be gone into in great detail…

> The preacher does not need to know these personal facts concerning his congregation … The preacher does not need to know these details. Why not? Because he knows that all the people before him are suffering from the same disease, which is sin — every one of them. The symptoms may vary tremendously from case to case, but the business of the preacher is not to medicate symptoms, but to treat the disease. **The preacher therefore should not be over-interested in the particular form the sin takes.** (*Preaching and Preachers*)

Simple point, but huge implications. Everyone we come into contact with is a sinner. The form that the sin takes isn’t the real issue. Focus in healing the disease (sin) rather than on the particular form that the sin takes.

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