The Apostle John wrote, My little children, I write these things not that you'll sin, but if you do, you have an advocate with the Father, even Jesus Christ. You know what John was doing? He was giving his church permission to repent. What would your church do if someone got up and said, I'm an adulterer, I'm gay, or I'm a thief, and I'm dying, anybody here who can help? If there's judgment, discipline, condemnation, in response to that, nobody else who's a sinner is ever going to say so. You'll like your church a lot, because it'll be a church of saints, all of them blind to each other about their sin. Christians are in the business of giving each other permission to repent. We didn't get the idea ourselves, we got it from a gracious God who gives his people that kind of permission. I'm Steve Brown, a key life network, you think about that? You can reach key life 24 hours a day, 1-800-T-LIFE!