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Forget the Rules!…but keep them

This is the attitude many Christians take when it comes to the Law, and especially the “laws” we seem to find in modern evangelicalism. We proclaim Christ crucified in our churches (I hope!) and that His death and resurrection was more than enough to save us, but then we somehow shift into this “Obey the rules” mentality when it comes to living the Christian life. We do this because grace is scandalous, and we are afraid of it because it removes from us any measure of control or ability to measure the amount of pride we want to have.
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