Many of us are willing to trust God's grace for our eternal destiny and we say yes absolutely my

eternal destiny can't be earned by my works I can't do anything to keep my soul saved

eternally but when it comes to daily life, becoming more like Jesus in daily life, we kind of become worksbased. And we begin to think that I have to do certain things, certain behaviors to keep God's favor on my life, to keep God loving me.

Hi friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast.

I'm Felicia Masonheimer, your host and the founder of

every woman a theologian who owns and runs Verity Podcast. I'm so excited to

continue our beginner-believer series and this week we're talking about legalism what is it why does it matter

and how do we avoid it as Christians who are trying to become more and more like Jesus.

Now when you hear the word legalism,

you might have something that pops into your head, an image,

and usually it is conservative legalism,

so strict rules around modesty and clothing choices and

maybe head coverings or Bible versions and things like that media consumption

oftentimes when we think of legalism we think of very specific conservative rules

oftentimes from experiences in legalistic Christianity that we had growing up.

I grew up homeschooled and while my parents were not legalistic I definitely grew up

in circles that were and so I experienced a lot of this secondhand and saw the

fruits of it over many years and many of the people that we minister to

through every woman a theologian are actually coming out of legalism even extreme

versions like cults and so as we talk about this today I want you to know that I'm coming at this from an angle of deep compassion

because my heart is for every Christian to be able to walk in complete freedom and in the abundant life that Jesus offers.

Now maybe you're watching this and you think I don't even know what legalism means,

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