Kelly Kang and Pastor Ed Kang, head Gracepoint Berkeley and this is an excerpt from Kelly’s blog. It’s a little more than what you’re used to reading on this blog, but we feel that this is very important and encourage all you to take a read and check out the song below as well.
“I think one of the toughest calling as a minister is to help people who have wandered from the truth to turn from the error of their ways and repent. In the past 20 years of college ministry, I’ve seen many students fall into sexual sin because of relationships that started out “harmless.” A lot of these relationships usually start out with something as “harmless” as on-line chatting or giving each other rides or doing homework together late into the night. But in the highly sexualized college setting, these so-called harmless incidents quickly lead to sexual sin…” Click here to keep reading
This song really captures what is written above by Kelly Kang, we also heard this last Friday, with the Truth Haters message by Pastor Ed Kang… definitely worth watching again..
Casting Crowns – Slow Fade
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I really like this song….
Thanks for this post! Both the lyrics and video are so powerful.
I really enjoyed this song. Thanks for posting!
What a powerful video. It really makes you pause and think twice about a lot of little things you think are harmless.
I used to sing that song all the time when I was young at church, “oh be careful little eyes what you see”. It never really hit me on how powerful those lines are until now. It’s really true how what we take in with our eyes and ears really do affect us…
That’s really sobering, and so true. It’s so easy to think some sin is “just” a little thing, but before you know it, it’s more than you can handle. I think someone once said, “sin takes you farther than you wanted to go, longer than you wanted to stay, and costs you more than you ever wanted to pay”
great song with powerful lyrics.
well done casting crowns!
This sharing by Kelly is very sobering. Sin doesn’t come to you with flashing lights and a sign reading “SIN” in huge red letters. We are surrounded by a culture that feeds us lies all the time…one of the biggest regarding this area.
I’m thankful for Gracepoint and Koinonia’s “unpopular” stance and desire for purity in all of our lives.
please be sure to check out the whole post at kelly kang’s blog and comment there as well.
Thank you for putting this post up and the video. It was very powerful to see.
After listening to this, I was reminded of 1 Corinthians 10, where Paul tells the church at Corinth “So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!” Paul reminds them that although the Israelites were a nation chosen by God and they experienced God’s presence and numerous miracles as He led them through the desert, they still gave into idolatry. It’s a warning for me to be totally vigilent against sin esp. when life is going well. Regardless of how I feel, I cannot let down my guard and underestimate sin because my “enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” (1 Peter 5:8)
i appreciate this reminder as well as remembering how much we individually and corporately need to have a strong stance against sin…the song’s words and video illustrate this well.
It is so true that it all starts with one seemingly innocent thought. And then before you know it, you find yourself doing something you really regret.
I’m learning more and more about how it is so important to make Jesus the Lord over my thought life. It is the one area over which I have absolute control over and which I can hide from others completely. This song is a strong warning for me to take my corrupt thoughts seriously and to repent of them before they balloon into something really bad.
My friend told me recently that every time we are tempted we are given the opportunity to either resist the temptation or to indulge in that temptation and become more hardened. I see how this is true in my battles against specific sins. I can either fight them or just let them harden my heart and weaken me.
This is so true. Many times we think it’s ok to compromise as long as we don’t actually “cross the line.” But there is no such line, b/c sin has this kind of addictive power over us. The only way is to avoid sin completely, i.e. the strong stance our church has taken on undergrad dating.
Thanks for the link to Kelly Kang’s blog entry. Her entry reminded me of Dr. Tackett’s statement that every sin traces itself to a lie. Although the truth is that we are called to live lives of purity (Eph 5:3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people,) we willingly and conveniently fool ourselves into thinking that “a little is okay.” The song clearly demonstrates the repercussions of what “giving a little bit of yourself away” can lead to.