“Affirmation Instead of Accusation”
Sermon given by Pastor Robb on November 16, 2025.
Continues the fall Companions to Conversion sermon series.
Covers Ezekiel 37:1-14 and John 8:2-11.
We know in faith that the balance of grace, empathy and forgiveness alongside justice, accountability and transformation can often feel difficult - with people regularly pushing towards assumptions in one direction or another. One oft quoted phrase in discerning this is Jesus statement to the woman caught in adultery he protected from those who had to face if they were without sin before stoning her: “go now and leave your life of sin.” We might hold to this as an excuse to remain in judgment, but what of the possibility that the emphasis is on dignity, freedom and new possibility in God’s Kingdom that can be looked forward to and lived into rather than shame or finding ways to lord over others?
