social contract

It has become very apparent that the Church is without a viable infrastructure for community.  We are missing the very real role of accountability for actions within our community.  I see that we live just like the rest of the world, just with a slightly better philosophy or theology.  When we feel uncomfortable we serve self at the expense of others, community, and paradoxically the character and joy that comes from being integrated.  It is necessary for for us to be integrated In order to have peace in our lives. If we are honest with God and seek His ways and truth in our actions we will be circumspect in community and perfectly suited to experience joy in relationships.  This is not to say we will not experience pain, but rather that we will be living in an infrastructure that protects and values everyone within it.  To simply state these ideas we need to follow the pattern described in Matthew 18 and elsewhere to ensure that we have a community that is safe, one that points people towards freedom in God. I will say that the challenge to this will be anti-Christ ideas that distort the message of grace.  We live in a culture that aggressively protects the idea that we should not have to experience friction in relationships.  If we do we feel extremely justified in avoiding the personal responsibility for having to communicate in this community/relationship when the friction ensues.   If you have ever wondered why life is so fractured to the extent that it is it is because we do not uphold the law.  Jesus promotes a law of love.  In no way is this a law of escaping confession and the consequent responsibility for atoning for ones actions.  This law is a matter of the heart and the law of love is based on forgiveness.  We are forgiven by love when we seek forgiveness not when we escape responsibility.  The law goes a further step when Jesus asks us to atone for the sins of another 

"When the consequences of our poor choices (actions) can be avoided or foisted on others, there is little need for personal moral responsibility."-M Albert

This post is not finished yet. I'm taking too many calls to be typing under my desk