Hi Everyone,
Many of you have attended the recent postcard forums where Randy talked about the way that people relate to Rules. We talked about 3 main options which were to live UNDER the rules, whereby the rules are king and humanity must obey all rules in their entirety regardless of the impact upon individuals. The second strategy that we have is to try and get AROUND the rules (Casuistry) whereby we pick and choose which rules we beleive are still appropriate for us to keep or convenient for us to keep and which ones we can forget about. The third option is to live ABOVE the rules, whereby the rules are not removed or negated however are seen as serving a greater value or idea which at some times and in some circumstances should be changed, altered or even broken in order to maintain a higher value of love for one another. In other words, Jesus seems to live in a way where LOVE trumps the rules. The diagram below is worth looking at.
Feel free to raise any futher questions or comments below.
Cheers
