I get to wonder why so many people are focussing on a study of grace and law, and become determined to live under grace and not law.
How much of this is a reaction to a particular leadership style they may have been subjected to?
If so, then we have 2 separate issues.
Authoritarian and controlling leadership is a different issue to living in grace and not under the law.
The law and grace are issues of justification.
Bad leadership styles are bad leadership styles, and have nothing to do with our means of justification before a holy God.
David lived under Saul's dictatorial, jealous, murderous kingship but understood the grace of God - there was no confusion of issues.
The law reflects the character of God. It is good. Jesus didn't come to abolish the law but to fulfil it. In the OT it was a means of justification - if you could fulfil it, that is.
Christ freed us from trying to live under a law in order to be justified, and in doing so, we live in grace, accepting His sacrifice to be sufficient to present me holy before God.
Grace sees me justified before God.
In this freedom we're called to 'through love serve one another'.
Let's do it, and so glorify the Living God, who has given us everything we need for life and godliness, and enabled us to 'fulfil the law in one word, in the statement, "you shall love your neighbour as yourself' for if we 'bite and devour one another, take care lest you be consumed by one another'. Gal 5:13-15.
How much of this is a reaction to a particular leadership style they may have been subjected to?
If so, then we have 2 separate issues.
Authoritarian and controlling leadership is a different issue to living in grace and not under the law.
The law and grace are issues of justification.
Bad leadership styles are bad leadership styles, and have nothing to do with our means of justification before a holy God.
David lived under Saul's dictatorial, jealous, murderous kingship but understood the grace of God - there was no confusion of issues.
The law reflects the character of God. It is good. Jesus didn't come to abolish the law but to fulfil it. In the OT it was a means of justification - if you could fulfil it, that is.
Christ freed us from trying to live under a law in order to be justified, and in doing so, we live in grace, accepting His sacrifice to be sufficient to present me holy before God.
Grace sees me justified before God.
In this freedom we're called to 'through love serve one another'.
Let's do it, and so glorify the Living God, who has given us everything we need for life and godliness, and enabled us to 'fulfil the law in one word, in the statement, "you shall love your neighbour as yourself' for if we 'bite and devour one another, take care lest you be consumed by one another'. Gal 5:13-15.
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