Re: Waking Up
When your conscience is controlled by where you are vis-à-vis "the ministry", versus sin, it is arguably warped. You are then of men and not of God. Of course human relations are important, but the base of our conscience is our relationship with God, not Headquarters (Jerusalem, Rome, or Anaheim CA). We too easily become man-pleasers, thinking, in so doing, that we are God-pleasers. Any group dynamic has this peril, but in cloistered religious sects the danger is magnified tenfold.
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"Freedom is free. It's slavery that's so horribly expensive" - Colonel Templeton, ret., of the 12th Scottish Highlanders, the 'Black Fusiliers'
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