The church needs to be careful with emotional legalism, that is, the practice of realizing that spiritual deadness exhibits itself by apathy and then mandating emotional ‘behavior’ without realizing the impossibility of conjuring emotion by command.
Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash* their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, …
Thought for the day: If you’re a company that’s selling a product and another comes selling product with your label which is far inferior to your own. What’s your chief concern? To out sell them by focusing on a positive campaign? Or is it rather to viciously attack the credibility of the impostor? Legalists are …
