From legalism to grace. Anyone read this book?

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Originally Posted by derAlte

Well said! I couldn't agree more!

Thanks.

I've been a spiritual rollercoaster before in concerning certain expectations on holiness. When I young in the faith, I remember praying and asking God what was right and what I needed to adhere to as Biblical fact.

And I found that changing once I started hanging around my Mother's church too much. Their exceptional people, but have lowered their standards considerably. It's almost as if their standards are so low now that they might as well not have any whatsoever. The Mother of the Church, that started it back in 1963, passed back in 2014. It had already starting going down hill before her death because her health was waning, and she wasn't able to pastor as she had done before. Her son-in-law and youngest daughter took over as pastors, and it's been a continuing downward spiral ever since.

Like I said, they love people. They help them financially, pray for them, with them, encourage them to be involved in and regularly attend church, but correcting them in center areas of their life, they don't do. There's almost no outward attire standard; makeup, jewelry, women wearing pants, cut hair, pierced ears, cloud the congregation, and has found its way into the pulpit. The pastors themselves have backslidden in their appearance.

This confused me. The Spirit still moves in their services, so how could their decision to "let go of tradition" (as they seem to call it) necessarily be bad? I finally came back to realization that the Lord was simply having mercy on them, hoping they'd come back to Him solely.