One of the misleading half-truths that preachers can convey to babes in Christ is the notion that after conversion there are no more temptations, testings, or failings. It therefore comes as a great shock when a young believer discovers that it is still possible for him or her to sin. It is the crisis of failure in the Christian’s walk. Of course, “there’s victory in Jesus”; but there can also be defeat when we cease to abide in Him. John the apostle reminds us that “if we say that we have not sinned,