The Life of Freedom
Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you. The moment anyone submits to any rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ's hard won gift of freedom is squandered. I repeat the warning: the person who accepts the ways of absolute church control trades all the advantages of the free life in Christ for the obligations of the slave life of the law. I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, and fall out of grace. What is being preached and taught today is making it very complicated and almost impossible to make the spread of the Gospel have any power universally. Meanwhile, we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit of God to come out of this preaching and teaching. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious belief nor disre...