Sunday, 4/29, QuestDG Recap: "How Legalism Corrupts Grace"

This Sunday we discussed what was legalism, why it is so appealing, and how dangerous it can be in corrupting our lives of grace. To gain insight about this, we examined why Jesus was so angry with the great legalists of His time (the Pharisees) in our study of Matthew 23.

Yancey sums up this week's theme well when he writes on page 210 of What's So Amazing About Grace:

"Jesus proclaimed unmistakable that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's law is so great that we do not have to. By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God."