tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827307736027843091.post3966168051244184372..comments2023-05-10T08:19:38.817-07:00Comments on Growing Fruit: "Higher Functioning"Prince Andrew and the Queen Mumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08876789726311010657noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827307736027843091.post-88773512769846709822010-07-17T04:37:11.834-07:002010-07-17T04:37:11.834-07:00Our church is reading Steve Brown's A Scandalo...Our church is reading Steve Brown's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582293929?ie=UTF8&tag=aut2bhomincar-20" rel="nofollow">A Scandalous Freedom</a>, which I think is going to focus on the issue of choosing to obey out of love rather than obeying out of fear and messing up because of what fear does to us.<br /><br />"Believers too often stagger beneath a burden of behavior forced on them by other Christians, a standard that God does not require. 'I fear too often the church has become an organization of guilty people with a guilty preacher standing in the pulpit, telling guilty people that they should feel guiltier,' he writes. The oppressed and their oppressors miss the power of authenticity, especially the freedom to fail, the joy of God's complete forgiveness and the boldness it brings. God's liberty also lets Christians embrace those with whom they disagree."walkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05046468024103932112noreply@blogger.com