I’m reading “The Journey to Spiritual Maturity: Volume 2 - Finding Our Purpose” by my pastor, Dr. Joel Hunter, and I read this during my quiet time this morning.

So many times I wish there was an easy way to catalog all the stories I’d like to remember for quick reference when I’m preparing to speak to teach a Bible study.  If you know of one, let us know about it. 

I found this explanation of one of the results of sin to be something I’d like to share with my high school friends.

In short, the Fall resulted in a descent from individuality to individualism.  Individuality is a good thing.  God created us as individuals, giving each of us a distinct contribution to make to the world and making each of us uniquely valuable.  This is what it means to have a purpose simply in being.  But the Fall changed all that.  It brought in individualism, an insidious world view in which the individual places himself at the center of the universe and considers the welfare of all others to be secondary to his own.  Individuality is an expression of the image of God; individualism is a reflection of the image of Satan.  When Adam and Eve chose to follow Satan rather than God, they radically disrupted mankind’s purpose in being, taking us from individuality to individualism, from life to death.