At the Chris Tomlin concert in The Woodlands, Texas, Louie Giglio preached about the parable of the Prodigal Son in a way I'd never heard before. The parables of the Lost Coin and the Lost Sheep were integral to the sermon, too. Read them if you want. Luke 15.
In the end, he said, "Jesus didn't come to earth to make us better people. He came to earth to take us from death to life." In sin, we are all dead. It's not like we can have a little sin so we're only a little dead. There are no degrees of 'dead'. We can be either alive or dead. That's it. And, because we all sin, we are all dead.
Only by Jesus' cleansing act of sacrifice are we made alive again.
