General Theme for the Week: Holiness Each Day

Today's Lesson: Holiness and Controversial Issues

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Chris Rexroad discuss the following questions:

What is your reaction at the idea that the following sins require the death penalty?

• Dishonoring parents
• Quarreling or holding a grudge against someone
• Gossip
• Pride

What is the difference between someone who agrees with capital punishment morally and Scripturally, but disagrees with the obvious injustices in our legal system, which often releases some guilty offenders and punishes some innocent offenders?

Some of the sins in Leviticus 20 are punishable by death, others are punishable by being "cut off." What do these punishments indicate about the nature of God?

The reading for the day is Leviticus 20.