Ten symptoms of legalism
Peter Mead suggests that a spirit of legalism manifest itself in a number of ways:
- Negative attitude toward pleasing God – it is duty rather than delight (I feel like a slave not a son)
- Competitive attitude toward others – they don’t live up to my standard (biting and devouring one another)
- Prideful attitude towards self – it may be self-despising at times when I fail, but it is a self-evaluation that registers somewhere on the pride scale.
