LEGALISM Creates Sheeple; CHRISTIANITY Creates Unique People

Because religious legalism is obsessed with outward adherence to the letter of the law and “the letter kills” (2 Corinthians 3:6), it typically creates either automaton-like sheeple or prune-faced authoritarians; it can’t produce unique people who are freed-up and full of the life and love of the LORD.

Consider some of the mighty men and women of God in our modern era. Are they boring and drone-like? No, they’re exciting, passionate and very unique individuals. That’s because they’ve consecrated themselves to the Almighty, who is the Fountain of Life (Psalm 36:9), and the life of God naturally brings to the fore all the magnificent aspects of their unique personalities. As such, people who are truly close to God aren’t boring sheeple, but rather exciting individuals who stand out from the crowd, albeit in a godly way, not worldly.

Do you think for a second that if Jesus Christ was some dull, lifeless milksop—as religion and the world depict him—he’d have turned the world upside down as he did? Would such an impotent person inspire large numbers of people to want to murder him and others to be willing to die for his cause, even up to the present day, two thousand years later?!

Unfortunately, the typical image of a Christian in the eyes of the world is either some dull, feeble “goody-goody” or a sourpuss bigot. The reason they have these images is because legalism has so thoroughly infected the Church, but nothing could be further from the truth. Anyone who simply reads the Bible without blinders on will see that both images are profoundly false.

Make no mistake, true Christianity sets free, gives life and empowers. These are the hallmarks of genuine Christianity, not being some lifeless, drone-like, powerless sheeple.

This article was edited from Chapter 3 of…