How to Keep from Getting Spiritually Weird

[Dreamer]

This is a long read; but it's well worth it. To be honest, I haven't read all of it yet, but I'm adding it to my favorites and I will come back to it.

 

[Coconut]

People get weird for another reason. They get weird because they don't have a healthy sense of vulnerability. Because they're not vulnerable, they don't stay accountable, and they fall prey to a few things. What do I mean by vulnerability? Vulnerability is a willingness to see yourself as a traveler with everyone else. Not to allow yourself to be placed on a pedestal as some kind of super human Christian, but rather to be transparent about your liabilities and your limitations as a human being.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6.

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or
arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make
meek and submissive; -- [1913 Webster]

 

[Maureen]

'How would you define an "accidental" sin?'

I could give an example here, I used to place Lotto and football pools on for someone every week when I worked in a Nursing Home, as they were a resident they asked me too, well I did this for a few weeks until the Holy Spirit convicted me of it, and brought it to my knowledge that it might as well be me doing them, even though I was the messenger, what sort of message was I giving others?
This was 'accidental' sin on my part.
I had to tell the resident that I could no longer do this, as it was wrong for me to do so being a Christian, the man was an Orthodox Jew, and he fully understood, and apologised.

Another incident of 'accidental' sin as I think, was another resident asked me to go to the off licience and buy her a bottle of whiskey, which I also did, until again, convicted of it, to which I stopped immediatly doing, and took her in my car to the shops and she went to the off licience herself.

I think these speak of 'accidental' sin, as I really was unaware that I was comminting sin.