God Stuff

In this episode of the podcast. Bill Giovannetti continues sharing new book, CHAOS:As Goes the Church, So Goes the World. Below you have a short snippet of each chapter... Chapter 6 - The Pharisees are Back Nobody riled up Jesus like legalists. But the problem then, as it is today, is that legalists don’t know they’re legalists. And even when Jesus told them so, they had the temerity to argue back. It’s not that we are legalists, they argued. It’s that you, Jesus, are a bottom-feeding antinomian. There never was a legalist that ‘fessed up without a major whack upside the head. Witness Paul on the road to Damascus. Or Peter after the vision of the sheets. The human heart is hopelessly addicted to impressing God in its own strength. But this is impossible. Jesus said so: “With humans it is impossible” (Mark 10:27). I won’t go into the whole case for grace, as I have written a trilogy of books on this most glorious theme. It will be more helpful to explore some subtle ways the evangelical church has con