Word for the Week

Is your conscience clean?

Week beginning: 26th February, 2023 | By Ben Fullbrook | London

The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

Hebrews 9:13-14 (NIV)

Grace is a wonderful thing, but it is a hard doctrine for humans to understand. It is perhaps particularly hard for lawyers, since so much of our law (and thus our work) is based on the concept of obtaining satisfaction for wrongs.

And so it may be