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Lawyers, like everyone else, need Jesus. But as lawyers, we need Jesus for particular reasons. In every new social situation I find myself in, I want to announce to people “I’m a lawyer” even before people have asked the inevitable question “What do you do?” The words are ready to spring from my lips because for many lawyers, like many medical professions, being a lawyer is not just what I do, it is, in important ways, who I am.
Here are three important ways in which I am a lawyer.
In this blog series, I am going to explore with you how to recognise the ways that we have been programmed to think as lawyers and how to cut such thinking down to size (2 Corinthians 10:5); how we can learn to find our identity in Christ (Galatians 4:6-7), and how a healthy pattern of rest is essential to keep the Law from taking over our lives (Exodus 20:8). The key passage of Scripture which will be accompanying us through these reflections in Colossians chapter 2.
I am contractually obliged to point out (says my wife) that I am far from having got these issues nailed down in my own life. What I offer you are desiderata, glimpses of a fulfilment I have seen but by no means attained.
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