“Are Christians supposed to be perfect?”
We all know Christians sin. This is the reality we live
with. I was just making another pass through the apostle John’s first letter, where
we find these familiar words: “If we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” Whatever might be the
expectation of us, and whoever might be expecting it, the fact is that we fail,
and fail with some regularity. The longer we walk with Christ and the better we
know his word and his character, the more clearly we will see our own spiritual inadequacy.
So any Christian who claims sinlessness is lying, not just to the world, but
more importantly to himself.
That is what is actually happening in our lives, but what is supposed to be happening?