(1-30-26) Are we really not allowed to call ourselves what we are? Sinners. 

Charisma—Blasphemous Sermon Claims Christians Should Avoid the Word ‘Sinner’

In a video clip shared on Christian Media outlet Protestia’s X account, an Episcopal pastor delivered a sermon on the unthinkable: why she believes the term “sinner” is uncomfortable.

“I don’t think anybody, no matter what tradition you come from…wherever you are on the spectrum, I don’t think any of us are comfortable anymore with the language of being a sinner.”

“Whether we associate sin with shame and self-punishment or with those creepy sermons about hellfire…sinner is a word I don’t use very much because I think it alienates more people from God than it helps.”

To reject the word “sinner” is to reject the very truth that makes the Gospel necessary. Life is found in Christ alone, but it begins with recognizing our sin, repenting of it and turning fully toward Him—

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

Any message that removes repentance removes the cross, and any gospel without the cross is no gospel at all.

Scripture also warns that such distortions would mark the last days. Paul wrote that a time would come when people would-

“not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires… will turn their ears away from the truth” (2 Tim. 4:3–4).