Post details: GraceHeads and LawHeads

02/21/08

Permalink 08:06:05 pm, Categories: Background, GraceHead teaching, By Trent, 5793 words   English (US)

GraceHeads and LawHeads

GraceHead vs. LawHead 1 (done done)

You know you are under LawHead teaching when the constant focus is on what we need to do. It is almost like you are given a pair of glasses with "do" written on one lens and "do" written on the other lens. It can be behavior or it can be about a belief system that requires agreement. With the do-do glasses you read the Bible and try emphasizing the things that might suggest that we are supposed to do something. Every page, every chapter and every verse is a chore to apply it by finding and doing what we must do.

Before you know it you are up to your hips in do-do.

Why is the emphasis on "doing?" Why is it man-centered religion? LawHead teaching cannot stand for anything that God is doing. They don't want to trust God, they hunger and thirst for salvation to be up to themselves. LawHeads require activity, because they think that they will become like they act. If their behavior was just righteous enough, then God would have no choice but to recognize that LawHeads have become righteous ... or so they think. They are running from God and will only trust God, when they have jumped through all the hoops that they think will make them acceptable to God. When they fail, they shrink back, because their hope is not in Christ, but in themselves.

GraceHead teaching emphasizes what God has done, and where our hope really can be found in what is being done for us. Our glasses say "done" on the lenses, and we read what God has done in every passage. GraceHeads want you to know that He is your only chance, and that moral success and moral failure makes no change in your identity. When you think about how Christ has done everything for you, then you are full of hope, and trust. We want you to run to God when you fail. Only He has the cure, so don’t wait until you shape up to run to Him.

Dispensationalist will tell you that the Old Testament depicts a God of wrath and judgment, but the New Testament depicts a new approach from God. Well, I am telling you that when you have your "done-done" glasses on, you will see a new God in the OT. You will see His compassion, His love, His mercy, who will deliver, who will free, who is constantly working to set straight those whom He shepherds.

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