A NEW EBOOK (v.1.1) is now available for free download: “From Servitude to Sonship: The Law of God & the Covenants”. Above is the front and rear cover of the book. (It also includes an “Excursus on the Idea of a Sunday Sabbath”). I believe that if the contents of this little book are taken to heart, it will be life-changing in the best possible way. I regard it as one of the most important works (if not THE most important) that I have ever written. Not because the writing of it is important but because the subject itself is of immense significance. The Preamble of the book begins with the following words:
“Many Christians become confused about which parts of the Old Testament Mosaic Law are still in force today. Are believers today required to avoid certain foods or clothing materials? Is it mandatory for believers today to keep a weekly Sabbath — either on Saturday or Sunday? Is it right to divide the laws of Moses into moral, ceremonial, and judicial categories? If so, how do we assign them? Is a Christian supposed to keep certain Jewish festivals, avoid certain clothing fabric combinations, wear a Jewish prayer shawl (tallit) or attach fringes (tzitzit) to their clothing, blow a shofar, or give money to the modern secular state of Israel? One of the primary reasons why so many Christians are so bewildered by such matters is because there has been a widespread failure to identify the criteria necessary for correctly discerning from Scripture what it is that constitutes the ‘rule of life’ — or the underlying ethic for living — for the disciple of Christ today.
This little book is designed to dissolve the confusion which seems to prevail in the church scene due to the large number of legalists, Judaisers and Israel-idolizing impostors who have crept into so many churches during recent decades as part of the apostasy-via-the-back-door strategy maintained by the forces of darkness.
My purpose here, therefore, is to take a few small steps towards identifying the source of the “rule of life” for the disciple of Christ, thus providing us with a biblical basis for Christian ethics in our time, while hopefully dissolving the divisive acrimony and untaught misunderstandings which have prevailed for so long in this vexed subject area.”
For your information, here is an image of the Table of Contents:
This eBook contains 80 large-format paperback size pages with 26,595 words. It is available in an interactive PDF format which is designed to be very readable on a tablet or laptop/desktop computer. It can be read on a good-sized phone screen but the above-mentioned devices are preferable. Below is the link to the file (v.1.1).
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© Copyright, Alan Morrison, 2023
[The copyright on my works is merely to protect them from any wanton plagiarism which could result in undesirable changes (as has actually happened!). Readers are free to reproduce my work, so long as it is in the same format and with the exact same content and its origin is acknowledged]
Diakrisis Project 
My husband and I just returned from a week-long vacation. After a 6-hour delay for our outbound flight, followed by 2 more hours on a grounded plane with mechanical failure, I was very tired by the time the plane took off (around 10:30 pm). But as tired as I was, God strengthened me with a shot of his Holy Spirit and for the whole of the flight I was reading this article, thankful to have printed it out and selected it for my reading pleasure during this trip. Mine was the only reading light on that otherwise darkened aircraft, and by the time we landed I was still on a high after marking up the paper with lots of notes in the margins.
All of your scripture references were familiar as I have referenced them many times myself. Reading this paper was like receiving one vindication after another, after another. There were too many favorite parts to mention, and your Epilogue was certainly one of them, beginning with where you mention old covenant law ironically being a form of disobedience. I have often thought about what it means to deny the Holy Ghost and have believed it must have something to do with returning to the old covenant (or mixing old with new). Your paper has given me more to chew on in that respect. I also immensely appreciated what you wrote about how walking in the Spirit undermines those who seek to control us. Boy, was that every timely, so thank you, Alan. And thank you for all the time you take to write, and share, and feed those of us who starve for true new covenant fellowship in a world where it is so hard to find.
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