Line-dwelling
When I travel I cannot blog my devotion and so instead I will blog exerts from my teaching – in this case ‘The Cloud and the Line’
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line-dwelling
There is a line.
Many Christians commit themselves to living on this line. I would describe this ‘line-dwelling’ as the way we define and confine ourselves by trying to work out what we can and cannot do as Christians—what we deem morally correct and morally wrong.
We create two extremes. At one end, we look for a cut-off point of what we can get away with before we reap the consequences. At the other end, we create a cut-off point of how far we have to go in order
to gain the rewards we seek.
In our world of line-dwelling, we ask the simple questions.
On the subject of giving:
How much do I need to give to God in order to avoid chastisement?
How much do I have to give to God to be considered generous?
In the area of forgiveness:
What sins perpetrated against me do I have to forgive?
How often should I forgive the perpetrator to be known as forgiving?
In the area of entertainment:
What am I allowed to watch before I am judged as worldly?
What rating can I get away with and still be called pure?
It is as though we draw a line in the sand on certain subjects, and our faith then becomes a continual working out of our position. Once we have defined our position, we defend it as law against anybody who thinks differently.10 Proving ourselves right becomes our mission, and so we go on exactly the wrong kind of crusade.
The Kingdom Principles are not anti-line.
They are a call to live above it.
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