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Found this today wanted to share. Thoughts? God bless, GE With Brennan, I concur that it is high time for the church to honor its Founder by embracing sola gratia anew, to reignite the beacon of hope for the hopeless and point all of us bedraggled performancists back to the freedom and rest of the Cross. To leave our “if’s” “and’s” or “but’s” behind and get back to proclaiming the only message that matters—and the only message we have—the Word about God’s one-way love for sinners. It is time for us to abandon once and for all our play-it-safe religion, and, as Robert Farrar Capon so memorably put it, to get drunk on grace. Two hundred-proof, unflinching grace. That’s the kind of drunkenness Brennan would endorse–especially from where he is now. The radicality of grace is shocking and scary, unnatural and undomesticated…but it is also the only thing that can set us free and light the church, and the world, on fire. Brennan “got” that. He “gets it” even better now. See you on the other side, brother!
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For reference these are the threads on the subject. This is not the OP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To clarify where Jeff VanVonderen is coming from in his book Families Where Grace Is In Place: Building a Home Free of Manipulation, Legalism, and Shame. Highlights – Introduction (Pages 11-15) God bless, GE
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For reference these are the threads on the subject. This is not the OP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As I mentioned I’m going to post each point individually for the grace-full section. For a comparison check out Thoughts? God bless, GE
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Read this today and thought I'd share... Thoughts? God bless, GE
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I'm going to consider your words Gary. I'll pray about it and get back to you.
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The Grace to Disagree...and Press On, Part 1 References: Acts 15 Having a grace state of mind doesn’t mean life automatically becomes a superharmonious downhill slide. Embracing grace doesn’t change our address from the real world to Fantasyland. Even though we, in grace, pursue righteousness and peace and joy and commit to building up one another in love, we will still face conflicts on occasion. We will still have to live with disagreements. Human nature, being what it is, will occasionally get in the way. Opposing opinions will surface, family members will see things differently, and coworkers will clash, even when both parties desire to do the will of God. As people of grace, our goal is not to force everyone to agree but to press on in spite of disagreements. Key points: 1. Disagreements are inevitable. (Different views, opinions, etc.) 2. Even the godly will not always agree. (Paul and Barnabus?) 3. In every disagreement there's two ingredients: A) An issue revolving around principles of life, Scriptures, my experience, and my upbringing. B) Differing viewpoints depending on a person's personality. 4. In many disagreements each side has valid points. http://www.oneplace....t-1-320956.html -
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is not the OP. Here’s all 7 threads relating to Legalism I’ve started… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is the OP and subject/topic of this thread. Has anyone seen the new Les Miserables? With Anne Hathaway winning an Oscar I was reminded of this story. So what do you think? Did you watch it? God bless, GE Edit: For clarification the working definition for legalism on this thread is taken from page__st__20#entry1877865. This is not a discussion on the definition of legalism.