The 7 deadly sins are not necassarily mentioned in the bible. They are not mentioned as a group or called the 7 deadly sins. But they are indeed deadly to a believers life. One of those sins is called slothfulness which is another word for laziness.
Honestly i struggle showing grace towards people who commit this sin. In all honesty most of the church is involved in partaking of this sin. But what may be even worse is we feed and clothe people who refuse to work. Ok so i dont have the gift of showing mercy but truth is truth no matter how u slice it. But i’m not gonna speak on that part of it here except to say “man dont work man dont eat”.
2 thessalonians 3:6-15 says it best http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=60&chapter=3&version=65
What should the church do in this matter? According to scripture we should warn him. Warn him from what? Well it doesnt say warn him from refusing to hold down a job though that is one form of it and leads to believe thats what its saying. But also we should warn those who refuse to earn their bread in the church.
A christian should indeed provide for their own household. 1 timothy 5:8.
According to Ephesians 2:10 we were created for good works. We should be about the father’s business. Dont just sit their and try to feed off the meat the preacher gives but go out and feed someone yourself. We arent commanded to say i dont know what to do or i dont know what i wanna do yet. The reason you dont know is cause you won’t get off your your lazy good for nothing butt and go do something. Did i just say good for nothing? Yes i most certainly did. If you were doing some good you wouldn’t be sitting there making excuses as to why you aren’t setting an example for those coming up in the faith. James 2:26 says that faith without works is dead. Wow so basically you are nothing more than a dead carcus if you arent doing some good.
I’m a firm believer that we should quit allowing believers to just sit there sunday after sunday and do absolutely nothing. If we are followers of Christ then we need to start doing just that. Jesus himself was a servant. If you try something and it’s not your fit then try something else but by all means dont just sit there.
Some people say. I can’t do anything. OH wow u just called God a liar. I think the real answer would be. I DONT want to do anything.
Then there are the churches out there that are saying we just cant do what the huge church down the street is doing cause we dont have the funds. Cost money to love someone? Both the believers and the church have become lazy and it’s gonna kill us if we don’t just admit we have screwed up and get out there and serve just the way Jesus would.
