Piety, or being pious, has a long history in the Christian worldview.  In its purest form it is simply a commendable or admirable devotion to God, but in our world today it has to some extent been marked with contradiction and stress.  Dictionaries define piety as professing or exhibiting a strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality, but it has also been defined as marked by false devoutness; solemnly hypocritical and rules oriented.  Here in lies the contradiction and our study will focus on the need to challenge the pharisitical piety in the face of the Gospel.