Freedom? Part 2

There has to be some middle ground here. Yes Christianity is about the whole of life, based in day to day realtionships, yes we have to resist living all of our Christianity simply through organized programs, to re-engage again into the true relationships of life, BUT what I must also just as vehemently resist, is the embrace of the grey - individualism etc, or lose the big picture of the Kingdom of God and our individual/corporate call within that to build it, and to understand I/we will be held accountable for what I/we do with that.

So maybe the question or answer needs to be re-framed - it's maybe not "I don't want this organized package of Christian life - therefore I reject it", maybe it's "I embrace and understand the individual/corporate call to, in hand with God, build His kingdom, but do so 'intentionally' (more so) within the realtionships of life."

Therefore 'the call' and the understanding of it does not change - it's still the #1 goal 'Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness..." Therefore the #1 goal still firmly in sight, the issues of greyness and compromise are put to bed , and the understanding that "His Righteousness" still stands. Our expression of Christ may be less formalized but purity, righteousness, holiness are still indicators of the dividing line.

And we must accept and embrace that there is and must be a dividing line. We are 'the called out one's', the 'ecclesia'. When the move from the organized corporate structure occurs, we can begin to believe that the dividing line is a hindrance to expressing Christ through relationship, we might begin to swallow the lie, the divide is in fact 'arrogance and exclusivism' - but it's not - it is biblical! We are 'called out' NOT better than anyone else, we are all sinners, saved by grace as Paul states, but we are saved by God and his grace and called out to be seperate from the world, not to be superior, but to define that there is a difference.

And how is that difference to be primarily expressed? In the attendance of church programs and meetings? No! In the daily living out of our lives in the pursuit of God and His love, purity, righteousness, holiness, goodness...

The expression changes, the ultimate goals do not.