Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges

3 Bullet Book: 2020, book #40: “Because we believe that the Bible is the Word of God, we are more responsible to obey it. And part of our obedience is giving thanks to God always and for everything.” — Jerry Bridges

Finished on June 8, 2020

A great book that my grandmother recommended to me was this one by Jerry Bridges. I thought it would be a great book that went deeper into society’s normalization of many sins and the book was just that and more. There were some very tactical takeaways

The 3 bullets

1. How would you describe sin? The author emphasizes that the description that some people use — that of cosmic treason — is quite accurate. It may feel like an overstatement but not when we truly consider the perspective of sin as a whole. We can look closely at the things that we do in this life and when we truly contemplate what it means to uphold God’s commandments, we can see the other side of it and recognize that while sin might hurt us, we can’t compare our hurt to the hurt God experiences when we sin.

2. The Bible is abundantly clear about submitting to authority and remaining joyful in the servitude towards our bosses or those…