Faith Filled Family Magazine April 2017 | Page 39

Not All Excuses Are Excusable

BY CLARISSA LEE-KENNERLY
Homosexuality , abortion , fornication , drugs , lies , and the list goes on and on . These are the hot topics that seem to blur the line between what is logical and what really goes against the Bible . You could make a case , and lots of people do , that these are things that you can still participate in and keep your salvation . We have all done it ! Maybe not those topics specifically ,
but we have used reason to excuse our actions , our thoughts , and our conversations that seem logical to us and the world , but are outlined in the Bible as sin . My reason of choice was premarital sex .
Mark and I had been dating since high school . We were both Christians and were moving towards marriage . I was warned more than once , but I reasoned my way out . When I was in high school , I went to a teen youth conference call Acquire the Fire . Mark and I had been dating for