I'm an unWorthy Sinner

[Child-Of-Israel]

The Bible tells us that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of good. We are all sinners, and at some point were in need of forgiveness. However, I was talking to some people on a forum, and to me it seems like Christians have adapted the "unworthy sinner" thing. But why? So what? We sin..too bad for us. But God forgave us. One of the reasons I feel that we're not getting any better churchwise is that we are living and teaching that all are unworthy sinful people. However, if we wallow in that we threaten our salvation because we are keeping a losing mentality. God forgave us, Jesus DIED for us. When we go around as "unowrthy sinners" we are saying that we don't know the magnitude of that sacrifice of love. When I think of myself, I see a sinner yes, but I see a forgiven sinner who is loved by the Most High. We should be proud that we are forgiven sinners. Proud that the King of all loves us. Proud that God is our Father and he is on OUR side. So I say let's break off this unworthy sinner bond, and move on to living as forgiven. Stop calling yourselves sinners, lets do away with it. When God forgives, he forgets and moves forward. When you say "We're all unworthy sinners." God's probably thinking "Weren't you paying attention 2000 years ago when my son died to free you from that bondage?" God didn't relieve us from sin so that we could be saved(not only for that anyway) and so that we could still call ourselves dirty sinners. He relieved us from sin so that we could pay attention to Him with a clear mind and spirit. I am not a sinner, I am a forgiven sinner, beloved of the Most High, and guess what, you are too!

[peaceafire]

I tend to view myself as a saint who sometimes sins. the Lord found me in my brokeness and offerred me grace and mercy, not because of what I do but because of who He created me to be. He chose me before I was born. I am so blessed to be His and I give Him Honor and Praise for He is More than MY Saviour He is My God. I suppose, for me the confusion seems to only come in when someone condemns me for not doing what they think I "should" be doing as a Christian. When I trust IN Him that I am exactly where He wants me to be in prayerful living, sharing the truth of my life as it has been given to me, I have no concern that I am an unworthy sinner. However I certainly need to repent daily for my brokenness.

[Openly Curious]

The Bible tells us that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of good. We are all sinners, and at some point were in need of forgiveness. However, I was talking to some people on a forum, and to me it seems like Christians have adapted the "unworthy sinner" thing. But why? So what? We sin..too bad for us. But God forgave us. One of the reasons I feel that we're not getting any better churchwise is that we are living and teaching that all are unworthy sinful people. However, if we wallow in that we threaten our salvation because we are keeping a losing mentality. God forgave us, Jesus DIED for us. When we go around as "unowrthy sinners" we are saying that we don't know the magnitude of that sacrifice of love. When I think of myself, I see a sinner yes, but I see a forgiven sinner who is loved by the Most High. We should be proud that we are forgiven sinners. Proud that the King of all loves us. Proud that God is our Father and he is on OUR side. So I say let's break off this unworthy sinner bond, and move on to living as forgiven. Stop calling yourselves sinners, lets do away with it. When God forgives, he forgets and moves forward. When you say "We're all unworthy sinners." God's probably thinking "Weren't you paying attention 2000 years ago when my son died to free you from that bondage?" God didn't relieve us from sin so that we could be saved(not only for that anyway) and so that we could still call ourselves dirty sinners. He relieved us from sin so that we could pay attention to Him with a clear mind and spirit. I am not a sinner, I am a forgiven sinner, beloved of the Most High, and guess what, you are too!

Hello Child-Of-Israel,

When we get born-again for the first time we don't have the knowledge fully of all of what God did in our hearts and it seems we spend the rest of our lives in pursuit of that touch of God and finding out more and more of what He really did do for us when He saved us.

I tend to agree with you that one can get locked in on being unworthy as I've been there and that is a trick of Satan working on our minds and hearts so that we want walk in victory but instead be held down and supressed in life. But truth is we are Worthy because He made us thus and put His righteousness within us and He justified us as if we had never sinned against God before wiping our slates clean. And that is good news to one who has been burdened down by this defeated mentality of being just unworthy sinners.

I'm redeemed

By love divine

Glory, Glory

Christ is Mine

All to Him

I now reside

I Have been ----Redeemed

OC

[Child-Of-Israel]

I tend to view myself as a saint who sometimes sins. the Lord found me in my brokeness and offerred me grace and mercy, not because of what I do but because of who He created me to be. He chose me before I was born. I am so blessed to be His and I give Him Honor and Praise for He is More than MY Saviour He is My God. I suppose, for me the confusion seems to only come in when someone condemns me for not doing what they think I "should" be doing as a Christian. When I trust IN Him that I am exactly where He wants me to be in prayerful living, sharing the truth of my life as it has been given to me, I have no concern that I am an unworthy sinner. However I certainly need to repent daily for my brokenness.

The Bible tells us that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of good. We are all sinners, and at some point were in need of forgiveness. However, I was talking to some people on a forum, and to me it seems like Christians have adapted the "unworthy sinner" thing. But why? So what? We sin..too bad for us. But God forgave us. One of the reasons I feel that we're not getting any better churchwise is that we are living and teaching that all are unworthy sinful people. However, if we wallow in that we threaten our salvation because we are keeping a losing mentality. God forgave us, Jesus DIED for us. When we go around as "unowrthy sinners" we are saying that we don't know the magnitude of that sacrifice of love. When I think of myself, I see a sinner yes, but I see a forgiven sinner who is loved by the Most High. We should be proud that we are forgiven sinners. Proud that the King of all loves us. Proud that God is our Father and he is on OUR side. So I say let's break off this unworthy sinner bond, and move on to living as forgiven. Stop calling yourselves sinners, lets do away with it. When God forgives, he forgets and moves forward. When you say "We're all unworthy sinners." God's probably thinking "Weren't you paying attention 2000 years ago when my son died to free you from that bondage?" God didn't relieve us from sin so that we could be saved(not only for that anyway) and so that we could still call ourselves dirty sinners. He relieved us from sin so that we could pay attention to Him with a clear mind and spirit. I am not a sinner, I am a forgiven sinner, beloved of the Most High, and guess what, you are too!

Hello Child-Of-Israel,

When we get born-again for the first time we don't have the knowledge fully of all of what God did in our hearts and it seems we spend the rest of our lives in pursuit of that touch of God and finding out more and more of what He really did do for us when He saved us.

I tend to agree with you that one can get locked in on being unworthy as I've been there and that is a trick of Satan working on our minds and hearts so that we want walk in victory but instead be held down and supressed in life. But truth is we are Worthy because He made us thus and put His righteousness within us and He justified us as if we had never sinned against God before wiping our slates clean. And that is good news to one who has been burdened down by this defeated mentality of being just unworthy sinners.

I'm redeemed

By love divine

Glory, Glory

Christ is Mine

All to Him

I now reside

I Have been ----Redeemed

OC

Amen to both of you

[forgiven1]

We are unworthy in ourselves. It's only Jesus' forgiveness that makes us worthy, not ourselves. I think that's what people mean when they say unworthy.