Christians Don't Trust Freedom!

"Christians don't trust freedom. We actually prefer the security of rules and self-imposed boundaries, which we then tend to inflict on other Christians."
(Steve brown)

 This is so true. Every church I have been part of, as wonderful as they all have been, have one thing in common. Most people in them are absolutely certain that if anyone lives free in Christ, apart from the laws/ rules and regulations, we will all just run out and "Do as we wish" in some kind of "free-for-all".

That my friends shows how little we are tapped into the Holy Spirit living in us.  Jesus and walking with others in his name, is not enough for them. They have to oblige you to more; attend this, be apart of that, be certain you do this or that, for if you don't, you can never make it without it.

This is why we add so many burdens on people in the local church, we truly feel they can't possibly be a healthy Jesus follower without taking all their stuff too. And this is where it gets nasty. When people feel they don't need all this "stuff" we heap on them, they get slaughtered, criticized, marginalized.

But the truth is, we have to silence the voices who says we may not need all that the local church is burdening us with. If that message got out, church according to the organization, structure, and practice we have now, would fall. We have to be able to control the message, information, vision, and direction of the people, or this structure dies. If they don't have to come to us to get it, we are doomed. Obligation to the church (exactly as practiced today) is it's main message.
They see church in no other possible way.... a few people gathered in his name....... smacks of not enough.
We say it, but we don't believe it. Where two or three gather in his name...... but the moment we do it it's rejected. Certainly we can't have the enough truth, connection, right vision, proper oversight by "LEADERSHIP" without "Church as we all know it" today. See you have to be part of this "KIND" of church to be valid. Anything else is not "real church".
So we heap our boundaries on others, infect and inflict another generation, with our own baggage.

It's become more than Jesus, his mission, in community.
Yes we are afraid of freedom.