You have to be a Christian to lead like a sinner!

I have been debating in my head for a long time who I was writing this book to.  Could I write a book with secular appeal?  That question has plagued my thoughts.  My life coach, which really sounds better than therapist, is a Christian who believes his message of grace and change can work in peoples lives even if they do not have faith in the Christian doctrines.  I know that he is correct in this opinion.

What I am not so sure of is this, can a person lead like a sinner without being a Christian?  What's funny is many Christians would be offended at my proposition that we need to lead like sinners.  And I have always like to be provocative.  I think I learned that skill from my Dad, to not be afraid to say the things that no one else would say, but they would all think.

So my thoughts are the gospel frees us to be wrong.  Our security in Christ's achievement for us allows us to admit we are wrong.  Our improvement comes from God's approval of us and God's approval of us does not come from our improvement.  God is full of ironies.  I think that God loves them.  The simple things confound the wise.

So in order to lead like a sinner freely, we need an anchor of God's approval that only comes from the gospel.  No other religion offers this.  They all preach about doing in order to become.  The gospel preaches that we already are, we simply need to believe and that being wrong does not invalidate who we are.

So I am thinking that to lead like a sinner, you have to believe that it doesn't matter if you mess up.  To believe that it doesn't matter, is a radical thought that comes from going all the way with the gospel.  My pastor calls it, the scandal of the gospel.