This Week: Seven/Anger (Jon Harvey): The saga continues through the Seven Deadly Sins. Tonight we were gripped by anger. Like we have seen some times before it can sneak in almost unnoticed and then grow rapidly into a destructive force. There is no doubt that is what happened in the story of Cain & Able. From one blocked goal, ignoring the warnings, to full blown rage that turned into the murder of a brother.
Anger is not always bad in and of itself but lingering, simmering anger leads down a dangerous path. Anger from selfishness will damage us and those around us. Once again it seems that the goal of these sins is to break down community, to break down relationships, to leave us abandoned and alone. Anger breaks our relationship to God and our relationships to each other.
Anger abandons love in favour of fury.
Next Week: Seven/Lust (Graham Clinton)
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