Consequences of legalism: 1. Keeps people distanced and alienated from God. Afraid of God, the taskmaster. Afraid of God’s rejection. No assurance or security. 2. Guilt, condemnation (Rom. 8:1), accusation, disapproval (both objective and subjective). 3. Defeat, despair, frustration, futility. “It’s a losing battle. I can never do enough, be good enough, do it right and perfect as expected.” Burned out! 4. Self-destructive behavior; self-belittling, sense of worthlessness, low personal concept of oneself. 5. Hypocrisy. Play-acting; role-playing; lip-service (Matt. 15:8, 9). Contrived piety, perfunctory performance, pretense, ostentation. 6. Minimalization. What do I have to do to get by, to side-step the rules? 7. Impersonalization; shallow personal relationships because they relate to law rather that to Person of Jesus Christ and other persons.

James Fowler

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Eggs		Ground, Beef	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Ground Beef
1		Egg, slightly beaten
1/4	c	Bread Crumbs, dry
1	md	Onion, grated
1	tb	Salt
3/4	c	Chili Sauce
1/4	c	Grape Jelly
2	tb	Lemon Juice
1	c	Frankfurters *1

INSTRUCTIONS

*1 cut diagonally in 1/2 inch slices Combine beef, egg, crumbs, onion and
salt. Shape into small balls. Combine in chili sauce, grape jelly, lemon
juice and water in a large skillet. Heat; add meat balls and simmer until
meat cooks through.
Just before serving add franks and heat through.
**JJ** 102195.1943
Posted to EAT-L Digest 02 Feb 97 by Bill Spalding <billspa@ICANECT.NET> on
Feb 3, 1997.

A Message from our Provider:

“If you want to be a leader, you must serve.”

You will see many in this day who allow their children to choose and think for themselves long before they are able, and even make excuses for their disobedience, as if it were a thing not to be blamed. To my eyes, a parent always yielding, and a child always having its own way, are a most painful sight – painful, because I see God’s appointed order of things inverted and turned upside down – painful, because I feel sure the consequence to that child’s character in the end will be self-will, pride, and self-conceit. You must not wonder that men refuse to obey their Father which is in heaven, if you allow them, when children, to disobey their father who is upon earth.

J.C. Ryle