Probing Those Who Fall Away

I was struck by Psalms 101.3, this morning where David writes: I hate the work of those who fall away, it shall not cling to me. I take from this that apostasy is a danger, not just to those who fall away, but to those around them, because they might be swept along with the one who falls away. I think it's important to understand that we hate the work of those who fall away, we do not hate the one who falls away. We pray for them, while avoiding falling into the same trap of sin.

Spurgeon, as always, is pretty succinct: Sin, like pitch, is apt to stick.