John Ortberg Quotes

The Ten Commandments Were Never Designed To Be A Stand-alone List Of Rules. They Come Within A Relational Context. They Describe What Living Up To A Certain Value And A Certain Identity And A Certain Destiny Looks Like. In Fact, In Judaism, They Are Not Called The Ten Commandments. The Hebrew Term Is Aseret Hadevarim, Which Literally Means "ten Utterances" Or "ten Statements" Because They Were Rooted In Things That Are Meant To Be In God's Kingdom. They Flow Out Of How We Were Designed, Who We Were Meant To Be. We Read Them As "this Is What You Have To Do," But God Was Saying, "this Is Who You Are." That's Why We Don't So Much Break The Ten Commandments As We Break Ourselves When We Violate Them.

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