Letter 069 — The Address: You Are Reading the Wrong Frame (Exodus 20)
Most of us have been reading the Ten Commandments as a to-do list. As a test. As a standard we are supposed to meet. The Bible calls them words, not commandments. Today we ask what changes when the frame shifts.
In this letter
- The earn-it frame versus the rescued-life frame
- Why the Sabbath is a gift, not a rule, under the right frame
- Obedience as fruit, not root
- The tradition of counting verse 2 as the first commandment
- The rescue that precedes every response
Scripture — Exodus 20:2-17
The question to sit with
Which frame have you been reading the Ten under? A test to pass, or the…
The skinny
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