John Stott, a well-known evangelical Anglican leader, said, “Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.” Guilty feelings aren’t Stott’s point. Rather, he’s calling us to see our sins for what they are: deadly. Instead of making friends with our sins, thinking, “Oh well, I’m only human, that’s just the way I am,” the Gospel calls us to turn from our sins. We need to see them as nothing but trouble, and ask God to forgive us.
