practicalities, as I have already indicated, are sometimes much harder to implement. There are important, and sometimes quite complex, matters of interpretation of New Testament texts that will be the subject of more intense scrutiny in the second part of this book.14 One aspect of such misuse that should concern us all is the propensity we have to separate the matters of ethics and godly living from their roots in the gospel. To give a couple of examples of what I mean I refer to sermons I have