Hanging Out in the Land of the Sadducees
- Knights in submission to God's will
Knight showing submission
- Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son
Obedience - The First Knightly Virtue
I had lunch recently with a young friend of mine, and I asked him to share with me his thoughts on the subject of obedience - what he thinks of when he hears that word, etc. He shared some ideas, and then said, "You know, a lot of people might interpret your articles as being legalistic."
"Really," I said with a wry smile. "But you've never actually read any of my articles, so how would you know?" He said that he had. "How many?" I asked. He finally confessed that he had only read a couple.
Then he clarified his statement: "My generation is so grace-oriented that anything other than grace sounds legalistic." I see. So, if I try to balance grace with, say, discipline, that's legalistic. I would agree with him that his generation is grace-crazy; but I would call it something else - LICENTIOUSNESS.
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, let me explain the difference between grace and licentiousness... and, for that matter, legalism and obedience.