Galatians 5:2-6 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. Coming from a legalistic church upbringing, I can smell a legalist a mile away. But my approach to a legalist is changing. I don’t want to change their mind by arguing scriptural text as much as I desire to affect their heart. It is so easy to get caught up in the do’s and do not’s of ‘the law’. It’s easy for us to think this way as it is the way of human nature. Do the right thing, get rewarded. Do the wrong thing, and get punished. And let’s face it, God has his hand in furth...
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