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One of the main reasons for this is that our churches do not (on the whole) teach ethics.  We are so busy preaching the gospel that we seldom teach the law.  We are also afraid of being branded 'legalists'.  'We are not under the law', we say piously, as if we were free to ignore and even disobey it.  Whereas what Paul meant is that our acceptance before God is not due to our observance of the law.
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John Stott, The Message of 1&2 Thessalonians, 76.