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Calling: The Inward Journey | Discovering Your Identity and Calling E3

John Mark Comer Teachings

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What the Early Church Fathers and Mothers Called Deliberate Sins

The early church fathers called this purgation because it was a kind of, it's not exactly portland language either. What they meant by that is it’s a kind of purgatory, a kind of burning away of our sin,. One layer at a time, over years, if not over decades, of apprenticeship to jesus. Layer three is what are called unconscious sins. These are more internal than external, more relational than behavior. And finally, the fourth layer is what mahallan calls our trust structures which do not rely on god but on self for well being.

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