Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, April 10th. Are you drifting too close to sin and compromise?

Today's podcast offers a vital warning encouraging us to steer clear of known dangers that could potentially derail our lives.

Is there ever a time when you and I can neglect a relationship to Christ?

And is that not the reason that some people run aground and their ship begins to sink and they

wonder what in the world's happened in their spiritual life? They just begin to be negligent.

The neglect of anything is costly. And one of the reasons some people find themselves in a backslidden condition.

They never chose to do it.

They never said, I'm going to backslide.

They just got busy doing something else.

And someone got their attention over here.

Why don't let's do this and why don't we do that?

And they begin to fall into little habits. And those habits demand their time and those demanded times

draw from time they spent with God. And after a while, somehow they find themselves in a condition.

They never planned it that way. It just resulted out of neglect in their life. Let me ask you this.

As you look at your own spiritual life, are you neglecting any aspect of your spiritual life?

Are you saying, well, I don't need to pray or I don't particularly need to read the Bible.

I'll make it somehow. And you see, I'm not saying you can't make it through

one day without praying. But why do you think he said that we're to meditate day and night? Because

God knows that when Satan cannot get you one way, if he can just get you busy doing something

to neglect your warm, intimate, personal relationship with him, that sooner

or later you're going to run aground. It's just part of the lifestyle. But there's another

way that it happens, and that's carelessness. When he said here, some have suffered shipwreck

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