This is what Artem came up with!!!  In looking at the graphic did you notice?:

1. “To do”  We used a “to do” list as the image.  Everyone can relate to making a list of things to do.  I don’t know why, but it feels so good to check something off the list.  Lists work well in prioritizing tasks or steps to completing a project.  They just don’t seem to work in dealing with a relationship.  So in talking about legalism, we used a “to do” to explain that kind of relationship with God. 
2. What was on the list:

• Be good
• Follow the rules
• Work hard

These in themselves are not bad things.  However, when these are the pursuit of our relationship with God then our relationship has become achievement based.  Jesus made the way for us to be accepted by God.  Salvation comes by faith through grace!

3. Coffee ring and splotches on the page

I loved watching people’s reaction to this texture the first few weeks.  People actually thought that it was a real stain that someone made or that they were given a dirty program.  This part was genius because how often is that not what our real “to do” list looks like.  We tend to carry it around for days or weeks in trying to keep with our task.

4. The red letter stamp with “GRACE RULES”

The titled was stamped on top of the list as if to cancel it out.  It was actually embrace the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and realize that we do not add to the gospel.  Anyone who has trusted Jesus as Lord has been saved by grace, and it pays our debt in full!  Praise God!

5. The paper plane flying

This was the only way to redeem the list.  To keep the list static throughout the whole series reinforces the negative metaphor of living by a list for God, and missing the real relationship that is discovered in pursuing Jesus.  By putting the plane on the sheet is foreshadowing of what is come when we trust the Holy Spirit to empower us to really live.  Paul refers to the Holy Spirit (pneuma = means wind or breath) 14 times in this short letter.  The plane represents our life of list being empowered by the Spirit. 

Artem, God definitely inspired you paint the vision for the series!

to be continued…