Jun 22, 2021
Guilt. It's a feeling you get when you
did something wrong, or perceived you did something wrong.
Guilt can feel like a weight upon one's shoulders or a tightness in
the chest. Sometimes guilt is helpful, much like when nerve
endings tell a person to move their hand away from the fire,
likewise guilt tells us to stop...we have "crossed a line."
Guilt becomes a bad thing when we don't know how to resolve it,
remove it or stop doing whatever makes us feel guilty.
Shame. It's similar to guilt, but it's more
then a feeling, it's an identity. Shame is a sense that your
whole self is wrong, and it may or may not be related to a specific
behavior or event. Nevertheless, shame becomes a label we
wear or that we are known by; the thief, the cheater, the failure,
or the addict. Much like guilt, we feel the weight of shame,
the heaviness of wearing an identity we would do anything to shake,
and that's part of the problem. In trying to lose the shame,
we often find ourselves in an even worse situation then when we
started. So the question is
this: What is a person supposed to do with the
weight of guilt and shame?
In this new sermon series called Beyond Belief, we will take a look at how faith in Jesus not only frees us from guilt and shame, but provides us with the freedom to live a new life with a new identity. Do you want to know more? Give a listen and discover how the apostle Paul teaches these truths from Romans chapter 7 and 8.