I preparing for a retreat on the Law (and the Ten Commandments in particular). I am looking at law through a variety of lenses. While many of these overlap, there are nuances worth exploring that makes it helpful to create distinctions. Here are the lenses I am thinking of right now. If anyone has other lenses that might helpful to consider, I’d love to hear them:

• Law Expression of Love
• Law as Creative Power (Creation of Adam/creation song)
• Law as Restorative Power (redemption song)
• Law as Covenantal Gift
• Law as Glory of the Lord (intimate)
• Law as Charge to Enter into Promised Land (Deuteronomy parallel with Hebrews)
• Law as the Root of the Fear of God
• Law as the Seed (Growing up into Psalms, Wisdom, Kingdom Rule)
• Law written in Stone/Law written in Flesh
• Law fulfilled in Jesus (entirety of Word enfleshed in Jesus)