That Which Surrounds Sin

Ministers often deal with the real-world situation which surrounds the issues. For example, domestic violence, abortion, infidelity, racial hatred, and so on. Yet people of European stock have a strong tendency to approach such things from a theoretical or metaphysical point of view. They develop some kind of ideology, and proceed from there. I think it is true to say that the Biblical approach tends not to be theoretical, but commonly takes in the wider reality -- and condemns the sin, not on some theoretical basis, but on the basis of all that surrounds the sin. This, too, seems to be a problem in modern society. People have lost touch with what surrounds the sin.