Have I become a sheltered egg yolk Christian? I hope not.  Till I was abt. 15, I was charmed by the sinful world, but Christ changed it all.

The shadows of worldly pleasures still persecute me as a Christian, and yet  I can witness of the freedom in Christ still knowing the struggle of Romans 7, but also the liberating power of Rom. 8.  I don´t just “jump” from one chapter to the other.  The struggle with the old nature cannot be removed nor improved.

I didn´t flee into a protected monastery life like that of Luther in Erfurt.  I´m his follower in the sense of breathing like him the fresh air of the gospel of grace.  I don´t preach religion, but Christ and His saving power in His cleansing blood.

I shun “good” fellow believers thriving, as it were, in the safe isolation of an egg yolk.  I got that word from a new convert who didn´t always feel comfortable with his pious friends ignorant of the reality of sin and its deliverance in Christ.

One day it became too much and he said, “You´re nothing but “egg yolk” Christians.  I found that word not only funny but pretty accurate.

So I´ve been “associating” with immoral sinners all right outside the egg yolk. (1 Cor. 5:10).  Immoral women have tried to lure me into the sin of adultery, but I don´t put them on any medieval witch fire, but joyfully give them the gospel.  With Jesus there were women too  (Luke 8:2),  delivered from an immoral life to become now “new creatures” or as one version puts it, “There is in Christ a new world!”  2 Cor. 5:17

Do you feel comfortable in a fellowship like that?  I hope so.  I for my own part know of nothing better and sweeter full of the flavor of undeserved grace!  - 6/1/21 - jn