“We don’t take sin seriously enough.”

“We have lost the concept of sin.”

Sooner or later someone always says something along those lines when talking about grace, don’t they? I mean, sometimes it’s me. In a certain sense we can’t talk about grace without talking about sin. If we don’t make the connection, we may not really understand grace well. On the other hand we don’t need to belabor the point, all of us experience sin and feel its presence.