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Rosaria Champagne Butterfeld, “The Secret Thoughts o an Unlikely Convert”

“ !elieved then and !elieve no" that "here every!ody thinks the same no!ody

thinks very much#” $p%&

“Christians still scare me "hen they reduce Christianity to a liestyle and claim that

'od is on the side o those "ho attend to the rules o the liestyle they have

invented or claim to fnd in the Bi!le#” $p(&

“The most memora!le part o this meal "as )en*s prayer !eore the meal# had

never heard anyone pray to 'od as i 'od cared, as i 'od listened, and as i 'od

ans"ered# t "as not a pretentious prayer uttered or the heathen at the ta!le to

overhear+ t "as a private and honest utterance, and elt as though "as treading

on something real, something sincere, something important, and something

transparent !ut illegi!le to me#” $p-&

“.ride com!ined "ith "ealth leads to idleness !ecause you alsely eel that 'od /ust

"ants you to have un0 i unchecked, this sin "ill gro" into entertainment1driven

lust0 i unchecked, this sin "ill gro" into hardness o heart that declares other

people*s pro!lems no responsi!ility or care o your o"n0 i unchecked, "e !ecome

!old in our sin and eel entitled to live selfsh lives ueled !y the t"in values o our

culture2 ac3uiring and achieving#” $p%&

“Sin is not a mistake# 4 mistake is taking the "rong e5it on the high"ay# 4 sin is

treason against a 6oly 'od# 4 mistake is a logical misstep# Sin lurks in our heart and

gra!s us !y the throat to do its !idding#” $p%7&

“8hat good Christians don*t reali9e is that se5ual sin is not recreational se5 gone

over!oard# Se5ual sin is predatory# t "on*t !e “healed” !y redeeming the conte5t or

the genders# Se5ual sin must simply !e killed# 8hat is let o your se5uality ater

this annihilation is up to 'od# But healing, to the se5ual sinner, is death2 nothing

more and nothing less# told my audience that think too many young Christian

ornicators plan that marriage "ill redeem their sin# Too many young Christian

mastur!ators plan that marriage "ill redeem their patterns# Too many young

Christian internet pornographers think that having legitimate se5 "ill take a"ay the

desire to have illicit se5# They*re "rong# 4nd the marriages that result rom this line

o thinking are dangerous places# kno", told my audience, "hy over fty percent

o Christian marriages end in divorce2 !ecause Christians act as though marriage

redeems sin# :arriage does not redeem sin# ;nly