An Allegory of the Gospel

The text gives us two contrasts between Religion vs. the Gospel:1st What it looks like in our relationship with God vv8-112nd What it looks like in our relationship with others vv12-20Non-Christians will tend hear gospel presentations as appeals to become a “nice person” rather than a “new person” unless we are clear in articulating the drastic difference between moralism and the Gospel. Even among Christians the default mode of our hearts is “moralism”—that is, the idea that our performance determines how God feels about us. Unless we are actively preaching the gospel to ourselves and others daily, beating it into our hearts continually…. we will easily fall back into “moralism.”