The church has been and always will be under attack from the outside and the inside by our enemy. Governments and false religious systems continue to aggressively attack the church today from the outside. And the New Testament is full of defenses of the faith from false teachers on the inside who continue on as active today as ever. But we also have to deal with our own sinful selves in the process of sanctification. I want to look at how our own sin, even as true believers, damages the church. I want to look at three areas where this sinful erosion is pushing us away from our connection with God and the body. I also want to offer a solution. I write this not because I have it in for the church. I don’t. I love the church. It is the body of Christ.