LAW, GRACE AND

An Indian pastor in Oklahoma was going to a pastors’ conference. He went to the train station and caught a train to a mansion where the conference was being held. The theme of the conference was “Law and Grace.” The Indian pastor listened intently to the lengthy theological discussions and arguments presented by each seminar leader. Finally, in a group-discussion period, he said, “It seems to me the train station we all came in at demonstrates law, and this house we are meeting in, grace. At the station was a sign ‘Do not spit,’ yet the men there did. Here there is no sign, yet no one spits.”741

The law says, “Do this and live.” It commands but gives us neither feet nor hands.

Grace bids us to fly and gives us wings.742