This is Kyle Worley, and I'm joined by my coach.

Jen Wilkin to J.T. English. How y'all doing?

Good. How are you?

Doing great. Hey, listen, for the non-banter, people, guess what? You're in luck.

Cutting the banner right out of this episode.

No, no. We can't. No. Every now and then. Why not? I got to get warmed up. Well, that was your warm up right there. You just use your time. You use your one line to warm up by calling for the warmup. Hey, listen. Now, you guys are doing it. See that 10 times. And the banter box has been checked. Yeah. Hey, I just want to give a shout

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I want to talk about this because this is, there's some biblical text that can make this

feel a little bit challenging. We're going to get to those. I feel like it's also just a really

practical question, a really felt question among Christians that can feel almost strange to ask.

Like, it's almost like if you're in the small group and you ask, if I keep committing the same sin, am I still a Christian?

Everybody's like, what sin are you still committing?

It seems like we need to rewind the tape here.

It's almost like you're guilty by asking the question, but it's a very real question. I think it's like it's almost like you're guilty by asking the question but it's a

very real question i think it's worth asking but let's start by defining the terms what's in j t get us

going we're not asking for the textbook definition but give us a on the cut off-the-cuff definition of

sin sin is i would say twofold, it's just kind of disobedience, rebellion to God. It's, God has laid out a perfect holy law before us, and we have sinned against it. Anytime we think we know better than God and do opposite of what his law requires or commands, we've sinned against him. In addition, sin isn't just

what we do. It's who we are. It's now become part of our totally depraved nature because of original

sin. So Romans chapter 5, we are no longer, if you are, if you're not in Christ, you're in

Adam. You're born into Adam. You're born into sin and guilt. You're born into

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