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Lazarus story a paradigm for Jesus’ redemption from sin, youth told

by Jerry L. Van Marter
Presbyterian News Service

MONTREAT, NC — When the writers of the Westminster Confession penned the words Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God, “they thought even kids could understand that,” the Rev. Patrick Laney told week three of the 2008 Montreat Youth Conferences this morning (July 8).

“But you know what?” Laney, co-keynoter with the Rev. Jo Nygard, said. “Not even 30-year-olds can understand it today. What sin really means,” he concluded, “is separation from God.”

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