WWUTT 1130 Q&A Too Many Verses, Women Correcting Men, Sins and Trespasses, Unplanned for Church?

Too Much Scripture in Evangelism

Can you use too many verses when you're evangelizing someone? What is the difference between a sin and a trespass? And is it okay for your church to show the movie unplanned? The answers to these questions and others when we understand the text.

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Here once again is Pastor Gabe. Thank you, Becky. You're welcome.

After arriving back in Kansas from the G3 conference, I'm ready for warmer weather already.

Yes, Atlanta, even though it was chilly, it was, I mean, it wasn't terribly cold, but it was chilly. Yeah. It definitely was warmer than Kansas. It was definitely warmer than Kansas.

And then, and then we stayed the southern route. Yes. Yes, we did. I don't, which I don't think we've taken that route. Well, we did when my sister was. That's right, once. She lived in Oxford, Mississippi at the time.

Mm-hmm. Well, we didn't go through Texas. We, I think we jaunted back up north through Arkansas. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

Because I've never been through Louisiana ever. That's right.

That was your first time. Until this time. Becky had her first trip through Louisiana ever. Yep. And she slept through most of it. It was dark. You couldn't see much anyway. And we were totally taken by the bear crossing signs.

Yeah, that was awesome. We were looking, we were looking for some bears. Looking for some black bears in the middle of the night. Didn't see any. Yeah. We would have found them, I'm sure. Or they would have found us.

Yep. But we stayed that southern route. And so we remained in warm weather, even went to a church in Texas before jaunting back up toward Kansas. They had green grass still. Yeah, the Texas. Interesting.

The eastern Texas grass was still green. Yep. And now we're back in, it's been freezing rain. We've had, it's snowing right now while we're recording this. It is. It's been bitter cold winds. Yes. I don't think the temperature's been above 35 at the warmest.

Yep. And so yeah, we're ready to head back south.

We're gonna head south for the winter. What are those, what are those called? Snowbirds? Snowbirds, that's right. We'll do snowbirds.

Anybody want to host us for a couple more months? Because, goodness. I want to host us. That sounds yummy. Well, I still got some chili left. And I'm drinking my Arnold Palmer. You can take the boy out of the south, but you can't take the south out of the boy.

Right here. My sweet tea and lemonade.

My, I don't have an excuse. I'm Kansas born and raised.

Well, we brought some questions back with us. We did. We had some folks come by the table and slip us some questions in envelopes and things like that, note cards. So we brought them back. I think on the broadcast last week, we said we weren't gonna have enough time to address them, but we would do them when we got back.

Right. There was one question that we did and it was related to a comment that Derek Thomas said during his talk at G3. I want to say that I've actually edited my answer. So if you go back to last week's broadcast, it's a minute shorter than it was.

Oh. Because I took part of it out. Got it. The reason why I did that, I don't want anybody to feel like I'm cheating them or misleading or trying to be sneaky with something. But it was because I answered the question not knowing the context of Derek Thomas' comment.

And when I found out, it was actually a more major point than I thought it was. And learned a little bit more about the context of his comment because we weren't in there when Derek Thomas was talking.

Right. I realized, you know, my answer really doesn't go with what he said. And so just for the sake of not causing anyone to stumble who did hear Derek Thomas' talk, I edited part of my answer out. We might come back to that question again another time.

Yeah. Maybe if somebody asks it again, I don't know. But just to let you know, I had taken out part of that just so in case someone listened to Derek Thomas and heard him say what he said about Jesus' memory and then heard my answer, they wouldn't think that I was agreeing with the overall point that he was making there.

Okay. Anyway, I guess it's the best that I can word it.

But otherwise, everything else is intact. It's tough to answer questions when you don't have everything. Yeah. And I should have just said.

I thought it was just like a one-off comment that he made. Yeah. I didn't think it was a major point of his sermon. Okay. And so I should have just said, well, we'll look into that. Yeah. And I didn't.

Well. Lesson learned. Hey. Great minds. Great minds think alike. Okay. So here are some of the other questions we got. And then we're going to come to, well, some questions we've been asked. This was a few weeks ago and we still haven't gotten to these questions yet.

Yeah. They've just kind of been floating in limbo. Yes. Thank you. Hey. All right. So this first one, actually, I think both of these name and location withheld. So we don't have on these two questions.

No one to mention who this came from. But I remember who it was. Yes. Dear Pastor Gabe and Becky, I have an evangelical. I'm sorry. I have an evangelist friend that has a lot of scripture memorized and quotes a lot of scripture when witnessing.

On a couple of occasions, the ministry leaders of where my friend was witnessing told my friend to stop using so much scripture. So is there such a thing as too much scripture when witnessing? What do you think?

No.

That's what I would say. No. I mean, as long as you're not talking over their head with King James and they're not understanding what you're saying with the these and those, I mean, then it might be a little bit missing the mark because you're losing your audience.

You're not quoting it for your audience. You're quoting it to quote it. But, I mean, it's all in your approach and your delivery, too. Are you saying it just to say it, just to spout off all the scripture?

Or are you using it to walk them through the gospel? Because if you're utilizing it correctly, there's no such thing as too much scripture. That's the way a person comes to faith.

Right. Romans 10, 17, faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ. Exactly. So you have to use the word of God in order to bring a person to faith. You're not going to argue them to faith.

Right. Exactly. Certainly not by any man-made arguments or by some sort of apologetic system. You have to use the word of Christ. That is what is going to convict the heart. And it even says in Romans 3, verse 20, that it's through the law, the sharing of the law of God, that we become knowledgeable of our sin, which is why you have Ray Comfort and then we've recommended this method as well, the way of the master method, which is the way Jesus would evangelize.

Right. In that he would use the law of God to convict the heart and realize, because as it also says there in Romans 3, every mouth is stopped. When you hear God's law and you recognize that in the law you are not good, you are not perfect, you have transgressed God's perfect commandments, then you realize before God, I am guilty and I need a savior.

And then the heart is prepared to hear the good news of the gospel. Because the gospel is not good news unless you know the bad news first. Exactly. And that you have sinned and are under the judgment of God.

Yeah. And even everything that I'm saying to you here is scriptural, though I may not be directly quoting scripture. Right. But it is what scripture says. Yes. And then you're even using the Ten Commandments, which would come out of Exodus 20, when you are helping a person realize the sin that they have committed against God, that they are unholy in the presence of a holy God and needing a savior, and then you come to the message of the gospel.

Whether that be John 3, 16 through 21, or whether that would be what Paul shares in 1 Corinthians 15, verses 3 and 4, just something simple like that, or Ephesians 2, 1 through 10. Yes. However you go about breaking down the gospel for a person, whatever scriptural structure you might use, the pattern for how you're going to share with a person that they're dead in sin and need Christ to raise them to life, you're using a scriptural pattern in order to bring a person to a knowledge of the gospel of Christ.

And then if they come to understand, they recognize their sin before God, the gospel becomes good news. Right. That it actually is the gospel. I can be forgiven my sin by faith in Jesus Christ. And it is only by faith that we are saved.

So therefore you have to use the word of God, because by grace through faith, and the word or faith comes through hearing the word of Christ.

But again, I mean, you have to know your audience. Like if they don't know the words that you're spouting off, then there's no point in saying it.

Right. Like you had said, the comment you made was, are you saying it just to say it? Right. Yeah. So if you're just trying to spout off a bunch of Bible verses to sound pious or religious or smart, I got to tell you, you're probably using God's word in vain.

Right. You're using it to show yourself impressive, rather than impressing upon the person an understanding of their sin and need for a savior. So you have to check your motives, even when you're going out and doing witnessing.

Are you doing this for your benefit? I mean, you do benefit from it, ultimately in the kingdom of God, but it is not about you. Right. It's about glorifying Christ and winning this other soul to Christ.

So there's that. But then, oh, there's something else you said. I was trying to remember.

Like the King James, using the words that they don't understand. What else did I say? Yeah. If you're going to use a word... We can rewind it and listen to it.

Yeah, right. Just kidding. If you're going to use a word like propitiation, be able to explain it. Right. And I've heard youth pastors do this. I've heard them say, well, don't say the word sin because nobody knows what sin is.

That's one of the other questions we've got coming up here in a moment. We've got a question about what sin is. Don't use that word because nobody knows sin. You say mistakes or say messed up. No, not the same.

Don't do that. Not the same. You use the word sin, but if you must... Then you give a definition. Exactly. Be able to explain what sin is. And when it comes down to it, sin is falling short of the glory of God.

Romans 3, 23 really is the definition of sin. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, but we are justified by His grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. By the way, that section, Romans 3, 23 through 26 to 28 maybe, another great sort of a blueprint to use when it comes to evangelizing, sharing the gospel.

There was one time I was talking with an atheist guy and I was making quotations of scripture to him and he cut me off at one point and he said, look, you might as well just quit using scripture because I don't believe the Bible.

I don't believe it's the word of God like you believe. And he said, plus, I've read it a lot and I probably know it as well, if not better than you do. And first of all, I'm sitting there going, no, you don't.

I just knew that not in a manner of a point of pride or something like that, but just based on the conversation that I was having with him, you don't. This is totally a boast on his part, trying to intimidate me.

Well, I can't use the Bible. He knows it better than I do, so he's going to make me feel fearful of using it. And so what I ended up doing is everything that I was saying, every answer I gave him, every one of them was a direct quotation of scripture, but I wasn't telling him the reference.

So he didn't know that it was a direct quotation of scripture. And then at some point in the conversation, it came back around to him making some kind of comment about the Bible. I said, I've been using the Bible this entire time.

You who said that you know it better than I did, didn't even realize that I was quoting scripture to you. So again, not saying that in pride, but just to point out to him that his ego was...

He built it up bigger than what it should be. Right, exactly.

And was prohibiting him from hearing what it was that I was saying. So Hebrews 4 .12 says, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Yep. And just like any weapon, you have the Bible, the word of God, referred to as a sword here in Hebrews 4, also in Ephesians 6, the sword of the spirit. Like any weapon, you got to learn how to use it and you got to wield it well and use it responsibly.

So, yes, by all means, use scripture abundantly in your evangelism encounters, but know how to do it well. Yes. Rightly handling the word of truth.

So maybe she should go back, like a suggestion would be going back to, if the, I'm sorry, let me back up. If the evangelist has a question about what they meant, maybe going back to them and asking them, you know, did you mean that I was using it incorrectly or that I sounded boastful or...

That's good, yeah. You know, something like that. The key to growing in your faith is also keeping relationships and keeping open communication about things. Yeah. Not dividing over this. So humbly...

Don't get angry. Just if you're wondering what they meant by that, don't just assume. Yeah.

Humbly, compassionately, you know, in a manner of friendship, not in a quarrel, a good way to put it would be, can you justify your reasoning with scripture? Like can you point to me in the Bible why you think that I shouldn't be using as much scripture as I'm using?

Give me a biblical example of that. And then, of course, the trap that they're falling into but don't realize it is they're having to go to scripture to tell you why you shouldn't be using too much scripture.

Like, well, you have to explain that. So you're explaining that from scripture. So all of our guide in these matters of evangelism, sharing the gospel, faith matters, all of this is in submission to what God's word says.

Because that's how we're brought to faith is through the word of Christ. So even when it comes to sharing our faith, so we must go about it the same way. Right. Through God's word. So thank you for your question.

Very good question. This is this next one here. Dear Pastor Gabe and Becky, in a church classroom setting, is it unbiblical for a female to correct an unbiblical statement made by a male when a sufficient amount of pause has occurred and none of the men have corrected him?

This happens periodically at my church. The other men agree after the fact that this man's understanding is unbiblical or immature, but most of the time his statements are met with silence. I have to admit that several of us ladies are squirming and itching to respond, but we just aren't sure that we should.

Those of us ladies that are deep into scripture and are able to easily discern false statements are single and would not be able to ask a husband to speak up. Your biblical wisdom is always appreciated.

And we'll leave that one anonymous as well, yes. So what do you think?

I don't know. I mean, that's, I'd have to think about that because you're in a classroom setting. So do you wait until after class or do you say it in class? In class, right.

In the presence of everybody where there's men. Does a woman then... I mean, you're not teaching the class. Right. See, yeah. Does a woman then enter a teaching position at that point? Right. If she's speaking up to correct a man who is being false.

A great example of this... I mean, I don't know why somebody would be teaching a class and say something false. Like why even go there, you know? That's where my brain is stopping at. I'm having a hard time moving past that.

Let me come back to the question.

In a church classroom setting, is it unbiblical for a female to correct an unbiblical statement made by a male when a sufficient amount of pause has occurred? And none of the men have corrected. So we don't have any indication in this scenario that this is a teacher who has done this.

Oh, okay. It could just be, you know, it might be an open sort of a class and someone else has said something that is incorrect. A woman wants to correct him.

I mean, I correct you occasionally, not necessarily with biblical things, but you know, like just life in general.

Yeah, but I mean, in Bible study, you've said something before to me. Okay. Before I did, when I didn't get something correct.

Very few things, I'm sure.

Yeah, usually you're just asking questions. It's not a correction, right?

Yeah, more of clarifying. But I mean, but I don't feel like I'm teaching at that point. No, and I wouldn't say that either.

I don't know. That's a tough one. I think that would have to be a... Like how is the class being conducted? Yeah.

Is there a leader of the class? Can you go to the leader and raise your concerns about why nobody else is correcting this person? Or if it is the leader that is saying the unbiblical things and maybe go a step up?

I don't know. Yeah. I don't know how to handle that.

Approaching a person when the class is over? Yeah. That certainly wouldn't be wrong for a woman to even do that with a man, as long as you're not private. Yeah, not alone. Yes. Yeah. And in this particular case, it sounds like the author is saying that they're single, because many of us are single women.

So you would approach the man, and preferably if he's a married man with his wife there with him, and say, look, the statement that you made in the class wasn't correct, wasn't true. Here's some passages to look at, maybe to consider that.

It could be a Akilah and Priscilla moment correcting Apollos, you know what I mean? Yeah. Akilah and Priscilla were a married couple. They heard Apollos teaching. They took him aside and said, okay, some things you're saying here aren't quite right, and basically share with him the gospel so that they would understand how Christ had fulfilled everything that the prophets had predicted and even John the Baptist had spoken about.

And then Apollos was able to understand Christ's death, resurrection, ascension into heaven, the giving of the Holy Spirit, things which he did not know about. And those are even graver errors than might be what's happening in your class.

Right.

Yeah, I don't have much to add. I'm just, that's a sticky situation.

Yeah, because I mean, I've taught classes.

I mean, there's plenty of different ways of going about it. It's just, which one is the most right?

I would say if anything, you're going to submit to the leader of the class and how he set up the class. So first and foremost. Right. I totally agree with that. And ask him, you know, so you don't know whether or not you should approach a man who is incorrect.

If you're not sure in that moment, wait until the end of class, go and ask the teacher, why didn't you correct him? And even say, if this happens again, if he brings this up again, is it okay with you if I were to say something in class?

And see how that goes. And then if it actually becomes a sort of a thing where it's offensive to several people, probably a good idea not to speak up. So not to cause a quarrel.

Right. I'm always embarrassed whenever I want to correct somebody. And especially if it's a male, just because I know respect is a big thing for guys. I mean, it's a big thing, right? Right. And I don't want to be disrespectful.

And if I'm constantly correcting someone, I feel like I might be part of the humbling experience at that point. And I don't want that to be me. So I don't know, like I'm not the person to ask about that.

We haven't really, we didn't really start with a scriptural sort of mandate on this kind of situation. In case you're unaware, 1 Corinthians 14 .35 says that if a woman desires to learn anything, let them ask their husband at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

So some will take that to quite an extreme, that a woman shouldn't even be speaking up in a Bible study class or Sunday school class or something like that to not correct another man. Right. But again, I would say that the best thing for you to do would be to talk to the leader of that class.

Ask why the leader didn't make the correction. And if it would be acceptable for me to say something next week, if it were to come up again or something like that. Or even talk to them outside of the class.

And maybe if it is the kind of thing where you don't have that option, maybe instead of outright correcting, ask a question and just start to dive into that. Instead of outright, no, that's wrong. Just do it gently and respectfully.

And I think you will win a lot more with that. Probably so. Approached. Yes. Love always wins.

Yes. Well. Sorry, I threw a rock bell-ism in there. All right. This one comes from David. And I just want to say here, David gave us a wonderful, wonderful gift with this letter. Yes. And we were very touched, David.

In fact, so touched by what you gave us that we were trying to find a way last week. We were in our hotel room recording that episode. We were like, can we get David's question in here somehow? But we just knew it was going to be too long to make it into the broadcast.

But thank you so much for your kindness. He left a card in there mentioning his church. And we were going to look that up and say, is there somewhere in there? Maybe we're taking another trip east and we would be able to stop in at his church sometime.

So anyway, this is David from Tennessee. And he says, Pastor Gabe and Becky, howdy yet once again. I hope this finds you well and that you are enjoying G3. Thank you. We did enjoy it a lot. We did. Always did.

Always do. Always have. Yes. This was our third. So the first G3 was two years ago, 2018. And we just went as attendees and met so many people just coming up to us and saying. That was fun. Yeah. We love what?

We love the videos. We love the podcast. We didn't know we were that recognizable. No, but as soon as you talked. I guess so. Everybody's like, oh yeah. Yeah. They hear me talking. They stop and go, wait.

I know that voice. And I would say, you mean what? So we felt like we needed a more central location to be able to meet people. So then last year we got the booth. We're way back in the corner. But that was totally okay because it.

It worked out perfectly. It was a perfect kind of a meet and greet place. We wouldn't be in anybody's way. This time we were more central. In fact, we were right next to Steven Lawson. So when he was there meeting people at his booth, that was actually great for us because we got more traffic.

We're handing out more brochures. Here's who we are. Check this out. He kept apologizing. We were like, no, no, no. It's fine. It's fine. You're Steve Lawson. You don't have to apologize to us for anything.

He was so sweet. Yeah. And then, and the ladies at his booth too, they were wonderful. Yes. Very sweet gals. Very. And then, and then kind of adjacent to us or catty corner. One of them was his wife.

Was she really? Mm-hmm. And the other one who we chatted with the most, that was a friend on Twitter. Oh goodness. I didn't even know that.

Yep. I didn't know one of them was his wife. I thought I heard you say that she was a friend of his wife. That's the other. That was the other guy. Okay. Gotcha. Yep. Yeah. So anyway. There's a picture of us greeting each other or greeting others like at the same time.

Somebody snapped a picture and got me talking to people and Steven Lawson was talking to people. Anyway, that was fun. And then, and then catty corner to us was the sovereign nations booth, but James White and Rich Pierce came over and we're meeting and greeting people there.

Oh yeah. That's right. From Alpha and Omega ministries, you know? So I was like, Hey, that gave us, we were actually relaxed on traffic when that happened because they all started going over to James White.

And we were just googly eyed at him.

Yeah. We're just, Hey James, look over here. We're waving.

And then, and so I said, It was just neat to see their interactions, you know, with others. It was just, I don't know.

It was a plus. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I'm not really a fan boy. I'm not either. Because I grew up around, yeah, you better not be a fan boy because I grew up backstage. My dad was always doing concerts with big artists.

You name the artists out of the, out of the late seventies, eighties, nineties, early two thousands in Christian music. And chances are, I probably met him. Yeah. And it was, that was, that was my life growing up.

So I was always surrounded by those big names and we just learned how we were supposed to conduct ourselves. You know, not, we're here to refill your ice chest. We're not here to ask for autographs, you know, and stuff like that.

On my shirt. Yeah. That's right. Sign my shirt. Sign my shirt. Or sign my Bible. That's what a lot of people were doing. That was me. I was the sign my shirt. Oh, gotcha. Like I bought a shirt here. Could you sign it?

Yeah. Yeah. I got a, I got autographs occasionally. I liked getting pictures taken with him, if anything. But anyway, because of that, I, I'm like you, I like watching the way they interact with other people.

There's not a need for me to have to go over there. And although I like to introduce myself sometimes, but yeah, there was folks that were there were thinking like, we're all kind of part of the same thing.

Like everybody knows who Gabe is and Gabe knows who everybody is. No. No. I might know who they are just because I listened to them online. Right. Like you do. Uh-huh. But they don't, they don't know who I am.

Todd Friel does. Yeah. He and I, we exchange text messages every once in a while and, and Justin Peters is such a sweet guy. And I don't even know why Justin just reached out to me the way that he did and just started texting me and he would text me what video ideas.

That's awesome. I'm like looking at Becky going, look, Justin Peters is giving me a, a what video idea. And then you go and blow him off. You know. And then I go blow him off. Anyway, back to the letters.

Okay. We're coming back to the letter here. So I was saying something about fanboying. Yes. That you know. Yeah. Just cause I grew up backstage a lot. But yeah, when stuff started going James White's way, that was when I was like, Hey, I'm going to sneak over to the Chick-fil-A booth and get us some food.

Right. He got us lunch.

That was the hard part. We needed like a, be back in an hour, half hour or something. Yeah.

It was, it was super busy, but a lot of fun. Enjoyed meeting everybody. Don't ever feel like you're, you're bugging us by coming up and saying, yeah, we, if we could love to meet everybody, it was, it was, I felt like some that you didn't.

And you're like, man, I wish they would've met you too.

I saw you taking pictures with somebody. I was like, I didn't meet that person. Well, you weren't there. I was like, oh. Yep. You were gone. You were busy, busy though. Yeah, I was. I was all over the place.

Uh, but this was a, uh, it's always fun. It's always great to meet folks because we don't know, you know, we don't see anybody. We're sitting in a basement room with microphones in our faces. We're doing this for ourselves.

That's right. We're just happy you get to. This is the kind of, yeah, this is the kind of conversation Becky and I have together all the time. So you just get to be part of it on the Friday edition of the broadcast with your own coffee, with your coffee.

So, uh, anyway, yes, this is, uh, this is David from Tennessee. Thank you. We did enjoy G3. We did. Uh, please find enclosed a gift as a thank you for your ministry and what it has meant to me and my ongoing sanctification.

Thank you so much, David. And we are very blessed to continue to be part of that. If I recall, your pastor was the one that came and gave us this letter. Isn't that correct? Yeah, I think so. Okay. So great to hear you're going to a good church and a pastor who even wants to deliver mail for you.

That's awesome. It's awesome. I have listened to all of your what videos and I'm a regular listener of your podcast. You've read both of my emails on the Friday podcast. After my pastor who I have sat under the teaching of for over 10 years now and who delivered this letter for me, a large portion of my learning and growth has come from yourself, John MacArthur and Todd Freel and the resources each of you offer as an audience I don't deserve to be part of, but I, I so greatly appreciate that.

So again, thank you for fighting the good fight and standing for the truth that is found only in the word of God. Now, if you have time for a couple of questions, David gets two. Number one, our church memorizes a verse of scripture each month based on a recommendation I heard on the podcast to help believers share the gospel.

We memorized John 3, 16 through 21 and Titus 3, 3 through 7 in 2019 and we have started Ephesians 2, 1 through 10 for January through October of this year. Perfect. There you go. Those are the, those are the three passages.

You could have just had the letter out and been like, yeah, these are the verses. Yeah, I could have. Yeah.

Because we just made reference to those. We did. So those are the three passages I recommend for, it gives you a good blueprint for sharing the gospel.

Y 'all are missing this. He's like, keeps hitting my knee every time. He's like, hey, look at this. Hey, look at this. There you go.

And I'm gesturing with my hand over here. You are. You are. And somehow not bopping my microphone while I'm doing that. That's awesome. Oh, dad had a great idea for our booth next time. To bop our microphone.

No, no, no, no. Okay. As I was thinking of our setup here, he said we ought to do a booth with a white screen and a camera and we'll get pictures, people to come up and pose, hey, do you want to be in a what video?

Oh, fun. That is awesome. And so we take stock photo images of people at our booth at the next G3. I need a better camera. That would be hilarious. That's right. She's been bugging me about a better camera our whole marriage.

Yes. Yes. And I still haven't gotten her a better camera. That's all right. I'm still waiting. Yeah. Anyway, so somehow I got to that from this. But those are the three passages that I recommend memorizing to help give you a blueprint for sharing the gospel.

It doesn't have to be limited to that. I also made the reference to the section in Romans chapter three, but those are some good sections for here's your understanding of being dead in sin and needing to be alive in Christ.

Yeah. So then going on here, David says in Ephesians two, one, what is your understanding on the difference between trespasses, periptoma, a false step or a blunder? That's what it is in Greek and sins, hamartia, which means missing the mark.