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unknown: What if God's not like that?
Are the ten commandments still relevant to us in the 21st century?
In the New Testament, Paul says that the law is a curse, and reminds us that we are no longer under the law.
What if we believed him when he said the law is irrelevant? Or that it can't save us? What if we dived into that idea and recognised that not only are we are not under law, but that the law can send us in the wrong direction sometimes? What if we understood that the law keeps us rooted at the bottom of the mountain and it distorts our view of God, rendering him distant, and inaccessible? What if we realised that our legalistic understanding of the law keeps us at the bottom of the mountain, separate from God, telling us that we aren't good enough, and that God is at the top of the mountain and angry with us.
What if we believed it?
What if instead of being rooted at the bottom of the mountain, weighed down by the law, we were invited to climb up and meet God, with all our failures and shame and mistakes and not good enoughs?
How would we read the ten commandments then?
What if we took another look at them, without the stigma, or shame, or fear, or legalism?
What would they say about who God is?
What would they say about who we are and who we are created to be?
What would they say about how we treat others, or see others, or interact with others?
What would they say about life and how we live it?
What if they were all about liberation and not condemnation?
What if they were all about relationship and not rules?
Thats what this book is about.
An invitation up the mountain.
An invitation to know the unknown God.
In the New Testament, Paul says that the law is a curse, and reminds us that we are no longer under the law.
What if we believed him when he said the law is irrelevant? Or that it can't save us? What if we dived into that idea and recognised that not only are we are not under law, but that the law can send us in the wrong direction sometimes? What if we understood that the law keeps us rooted at the bottom of the mountain and it distorts our view of God, rendering him distant, and inaccessible? What if we realised that our legalistic understanding of the law keeps us at the bottom of the mountain, separate from God, telling us that we aren't good enough, and that God is at the top of the mountain and angry with us.
What if we believed it?
What if instead of being rooted at the bottom of the mountain, weighed down by the law, we were invited to climb up and meet God, with all our failures and shame and mistakes and not good enoughs?
How would we read the ten commandments then?
What if we took another look at them, without the stigma, or shame, or fear, or legalism?
What would they say about who God is?
What would they say about who we are and who we are created to be?
What would they say about how we treat others, or see others, or interact with others?
What would they say about life and how we live it?
What if they were all about liberation and not condemnation?
What if they were all about relationship and not rules?
Thats what this book is about.
An invitation up the mountain.
An invitation to know the unknown God.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 26, 2017
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March 31, 2020
Beautiful. Now reading again with pencil in hand to underline ALL the articulate, wonderful, mind-enriching ideas to mull over some more!!!
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