Christians are good at arguing with one another on hot-topic issues (especially on social media), but nowhere do the arguments get stirred up more than at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
As I write this article, the SBC Annual Meeting is taking place. Many issues have been and will be addressed. Some new. Some not-so-new. One of the not-so-new issues revolves around whether women can be pastors.
This one question will never go away—how does the Old Testament relate to my life as a Christian? We’re not under the Old Covenant. Christ fulfilled the law (Matthew 5:17). The Old Covenant is now obsolete, because a newer and better one has arrived (Hebrews 8:13).
Nevertheless, Christians don’t feel comfortable just leaving the Old Testament behind, and rightly so. We need every word from God (Matthew 4:4, 2nd Timothy 3:16-17).
What, then, should be our relationship to the Law?
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