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  A Brian Hicks Watercolour   Romans 13:8 -   Pay everything you owe. But you can never pay back all the love you owe each other. Those who love others have done everything the law requires. (NirV) Matthew 5:17 - Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. (NIV) It’s pretty much a cliché by now that the expression, Ordnung muss sein , (there must be order) typifies German culture. This implies, of course, that establishing and maintaining order in society is obsessively/compulsively held to be foundational to Germans in any and every situation, that it somehow explains a penchant for meticulous record keeping, for the establishment of rules and enforcing them without exception and for seeing the world as too fiercely binary, where every action is either right or wrong. It has become a stereotype, of course, and like any stereotype, hides as much as it illuminates. As Christians, we’ve known for hundre