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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin
I don't believe anyone has said we don't need rules.
However, rules can never replace relationship.
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I think the problem with those who emphasize relationship at the expense of rules, and those who emphasize rules at the expense of relationship, is that both types of unbalance are derived from a naive or flawed concept of human nature.
"The heart is desperately wicked. Who can know it?"
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him"
These can both be manifested by the same person, on the same day, in the same hour. We are capable of selfless acts of heroism and giving, and vicious vindictive acts and words calculated to cause the greatest amount of grueling harm to another.
I hear you folks protesting that you aren't practicing a reverse legalism; that you aren't trying to figure out just how much like the world you can live and still be "saved." But you same people repeatedly turn a willfully blind eye to the repeated efforts to show the logical derivation of a few simple relevant rules from
scriptural principles. No matter how you stack it, it certainly ends up looking like personal preference.
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If you no longer want rules then get out of the ministry, go be a walmart greeter or something, but don't make a mockery of the ministry!
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but are we not now
ALL kings and priests? Aren't we all called to minister?
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