Pastor's Circle - Jeffrey Klick

Jeffrey Klick is the Senior Pastor of Hope Family Fellowship. He joined the Pastor's Circle to discuss his book Courage to Flee. Below are the "CliffsNotes" of his segment.

You talk in your book about "living a moral life in an immoral world." What is a moral life?

The motive for writing this book came from looking around and seeing immorality in the moral authority. There are so many pastors committing sexual sin.

When I'm talking about a moral life, it's specifically in the area of sexual purity.

Is there more of that going on today than there was 50 years ago?

I think we know more about it. It's always been a struggle.

If you're even remotely familiar with the Old Testament, you can see sexual sin all throughout it.

I think the standards of society are much more loose now.

It's much more acceptable today. But it's always been there.

The thing about sexual sin is that it's never just about you.

Sin will always take you further than you want to go, and cost you more than you could possibly imagine.

That's certainly illustrated in [the story of David].

The word of God is true. The wages of sin is death.

When you cross the lines, you're unleashing death.

What we do impacts generations.

Your first chapter is about compromise. You say the words "I would never do that" send a chill up your spine. Why?

I think it's naivety, for one thing. If you think you're above the ability to sin, it's setting you up to fall.

If someone says, "I could never do that," it's a good bet that they will.

We're all one or two bad decisions away from a lot of trouble.

What does it mean to "flee"?

Most people know when they've crossed into an improper relationship.

The Scripture's pretty clear that we need to look at our thoughts and take them captive.

If you're serious about getting free in this situation, you're going to have to take some radical steps.