How should we live?

Option 1

Obey the rules

"I wrote to the people who were affected by it and expressed very deep regret for what happened. "The person who was responsible went immediately and lost his job and I have ensured that there are new rules so this can't happen again.

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

Matthew 23: 1-4

Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Matthew 22: 34-40

Option 2

Behaviour doesn’t matter

Martin Luther

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Romans 3: 21-24

All have sinned and are justified freely, without their own works and merits, by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus… This cannot be otherwise acquired or grasped by any work, law or merit. Therefore, it is clear and certain that this faith alone justifies us……This one and firm rock, which we call the doctrine of justification, is the chief article of the whole Christian doctrine…

Martin Luther

Smalcald Articles

You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to

judgment.

Matthew 5: 21-22, 27-28

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a

woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

How should we live?

How should we live?

1. Obey the rules

2. Behaviour doesn’t matter

3. There’s a third, better way

4. My brain hurts, I just don’t know

Chesley Sullenberger