How Can I Develop a Christian Conscience? (Crucial Questions)

by R.C. Sproul

because pain, as uncomfortable as it is to us, is an important for our health.

Real guilt requires real forgiveness.

“I can’t recant. My conscience is held captive by the word of God and to act against conscience is neither right nor safe.”

Christians in every society, at all times, and in all ages always live under law.

Yes, the curse of the law has been satisfied in Christ. We have been redeemed from it, but that doesn’t mean that now, as Christians, we are free from all obligations to our God.

Christians are called upon to be voices in favor of maintaining and preserving the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of labor, and yes, even the sanctity of the Sabbath day. These are laws that apply to all men in every age, place, and culture.

Reformation starts when we begin to live by principle and not by expediency.

ethics is concerned with “ought-ness,” and morality is concerned with “is-ness.”

When the normal becomes the normative, when what is determines what ought to be, we may as Christians find ourselves swimming hard against the cultural current.

“The essence of Christian theology is grace, and the essence of Christian ethics is gratitude.”

God the Holy Spirit does not lead us to break His law.

We must be careful of this kind of spiritualism that confuses our desires with the leading of the Lord. It’s a veiled form of antinomianism.

That’s my issue with the new morality. Who is Lord? Who has the right to impose obligations upon us? God may do it, God can do it, and God has done it.

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.