Some grace plus law gospel upholders accuse the grace only gospel of
leading people to become spiritually lazy and complacent about their
relationship with God. This guilt-mongering is partially due to the loss of
control over people if they became grace plus nothing living people. The
religious domination, manipulation and fear-mongering tactics would cease to
produce favorable results for them and the religious empires would crumble in
the dust of the deception and confusion it is based on.
Grace is not a license to sin, nor is it a lazy man's gospel. In fact the
exact opposite is true. The religious emphasis on the cross as sin forgiving to
the exclusion of Christ in you and living through you without any input of human
doing is what really leads to spiritual complacency.
The mixed law and grace gospel produces believers who are relieved and
thankful that they will not be judged for their sins and have escaped “hell”.
But this gospel gives people no motivation to change their way of living. That
is why preachers in the mixed law and grace gospel play the shame and blame game
with its guilt and condemnation prizes to motivate their adherents to perform
religious hoop-jumping to win God's favor and blessing because they have
deceived people into believing that their identity is determined by their
religious performance and behavior.
However, grace living people are motivated by the Christ life within based
on their identity in Christ and in that freedom Christ works through them as the
Community of the Redeemed unencumbered by religious rules and rituals. For grace
living people the dominate motivation for living godly is the grace and love of
God...not the wrath of God rendered to people because they are law and religious
rule breakers.
- Glenn Regular
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