Written by BCC Counselor Jin Taek Chung
We have all dealt with guilt and shame at some point in our life. The effects of unresolved guilt and shame in our lives can hold us back and weigh us down. So, how do we make sure we are dealing with it appropriately?
The way our culture views guilt and shame differ vastly from how the Bible views it, and it’s important to understand this in order to reach true resolution and restoration.
Our Culture’s Conflicting Approaches
We live in a culture that has a love-hate relationship with guilt and shame. At one end of the continuum, there is a philosophical effort to relativize morality in order to rationalize our own wrongs, and thereby demand that no one judge anyone according to fixed moral standards of right and wrong.
Or as the apostle Paul described mankind, they “by their unrighteousness suppress the truth” (Rom. 1:18).
At the other end of the continuum is a fixation with other people’s guilt and shame, taking aim at them with no road toward redemption, while diverting attention from one’s own guilt and shame, or rather, projecting it.
This pattern is seen in
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