Don’t Stop Short
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 3:23 For some reason it seems this verse is popping up everywhere I turn. I’ve heard it in sermons, at our family Bible study and read it in more than one devotional. It’s true, we have all sinned. I’m not denying or arguing the veracity of the words. Those words on their own are the quick and easy evangelism road. “Are you a sinner? Yes you are! ‘For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.’ It says so right in the Bible. Now what are you going to do about it?” Left alone, presented that way, that precious verse is watered down, too easily ignored and basically just an ad for fire insurance. “Do you want to burn in hell? I didn’t think so!” Yuk! That’s what happens when we pull one little piece of Scripture and flail it around. Look at it alongside the next verse.... “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the red