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_{by Trent (originally posted August 25, 2005) - I call this my favorite blog ever}

Ro 7:12 - Show Context
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

Christian teaching can either focus on human effort driven legalism (LawHead) or grace driven abiding (GraceHead.) LawHeadedness generally denies any Grace ... but Grace includes obedience as the living out what God has put within, even the writing of the Law upon our hearts as a grace (divine enabling) that we might avoid the vexation of sin.

GraceHeads emphasize abiding. Our mission to believers is to teach participating in Christ and partaking of the Lord Jesus, not copying His behavior. We like people to work FROM salvation, not work FOR salvation.

Sometimes that makes people wonder if abiding will lead to passivity. But, living water must be received like water from a stream. There is some effort involved in drinking from a stream, but if you are taught that you have to grasp it will your strength, take hold with your own strength, and hang on to it with human strength then you will find that the water will elude you. HOWEVER, if you make room for it with your hands and just accept it into your hands, then there is not a reason to squeeze it and hold on to it ... and there is no other way to take it into you. Such is the nature of revelation and faith. Faith does not produce the things of God, but it receives them, and the receiving is the revelation.

LawHead-Legalism will teach you to take hold of the things of God, grasp it and hang on to it will your human strength/intellect, but yet these people have found it to elude them. How many LawHeads are afraid of falling away because of all the others that they know to have fallen away themselves? They should be questioning the method, they should question the encouragement to hang on to your salvation or take hold of it with your own human strength.

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