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Slack.com slash DHQ. I think the real, the scourge, the disease, the infection in the

modern church today is moral cowardice. This is our great problem, moral cowardice. We

are a church of cowards. And we could think of all the excuses that we want to explain

away the problems that we're seeing. But when it comes down to it, I think if we look

around us, we can see plain as day that it is cowardice. Not only cowardice, but that

is one of the main problems that we face is our own cowardice. Now, in my piece yesterday,

I wrote about this and I used, by way of contrast, the story of John the Baptist, a story

that I hope is still well known and famous among Christians and non-Christians. But John

the Baptist, as you probably are aware, was not afraid to call sin by its name. He wasn't

afraid to call sin out, to call people to repentance. That was what he did. That was his mission.

So when when Herod invited him to the palace and confided in him and spoke with him, John

told Herod the truth. He just told him the simple truth. That's all. He told Herod that

divorcing his wife and taking his brother's wife was a sin. And for speaking the plain

truth and nothing but the truth, he was thrown in jail and then, of course, eventually executed

and that's how his head ended up on a platter. He died because he denounced immorality. He called

it out and not just any immorality, but it was sexual immorality. And so I think most

American Christians, they would look at that and they would probably say, if they were

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