Can I?

In the Christian seminars, during the query session, most of the questions will be, “can Christians do this? Can we eat this? Can I wear that dress? Can I.. ?” their questions go on and on.

The servant of God standing at the altar is compelled to become the servant of Moses, he will try to display his biblical knowledge and will begin to preach, “the do’s and don’t’s.”

The danger that will come by doing or avoiding something is lesser than the danger that is about to entangle that church.

What is happening there?

The believers of Christ are standing at the foothill of Mount Sinai and are asking for another set of commandments again. Is this our ministry to write commandments on the stone tablets? We are not obtaining or losing righteousness by doing or avoiding something abiding by the Mosaic Law, “for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” (Gal 2:21)

Isn’t it the responsibility of the preacher to bring those people from the Old covenant to the New Covenant? Let the do’s and don’t’s be aside, shouldn’t he give them the New Testament to help them distinguish between the Mosaic Law and the oath of perfection that came through adoption?

Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Gal 5:1)

“Which means, do you say that we can live the way we wish?” This question will arise at once. It is not the problem here. It is the duty of the doctor to analyze a patient by seeing the symptoms and giving them appropriate treatment. The notion of this article is to spread awareness that it is better to stop answering the ‘can I’ questions and rather treat the believer first, because he does not even know which Covenant he is bound to. It is the responsibility of the preacher to clear their obscurity.