Christian Origins #50

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This entry is part 50 of 96 in the series Christian Origins

I don’t know what it is, but preachers of every stripe, myself included, are prone to lay a guilt trip on people from time to time. It is almost as though we were your mother.

Human nature being what it is, something like the projection of guilt was hanging around the edges of the early Christian church. It was often a legalism issue, and in the Roman churches, it was a Jew/Gentile concern.

So Paul spent an inordinate amount of time in his letter to the Romans dealing with the question of forgiveness, justification, legalism, and guilt. And after chewing the question over thoroughly, he summarizes in chapter 8.

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Ronald L. Dart

Ronald L. Dart (1934–2016) — People around the world have come to appreciate his easy style, non-combative approach to explaining the Bible, and the personal, almost one-on-one method of explaining what’s going on in the world in the light of the Bible. After retiring from teaching and church administration in 1995 he started Christian Educational Ministries and the Born to Win radio program.

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