'I was both a slave and a slave driver': impossible standards and the shape filled in
Reacting to the thread's claim of impossible standards, Boova says the standards are impossible by design — 'stop putting yourself as the covenant leader in this' — and the point is to be part of God's story. The hosts agree a fence that keeps you from jumping off a cliff is not a restriction of freedom, and that the shape of Christian practices is fine as long as it is filled in: 'if you have the love of God... all of these will produce fruit' when you are 'part of the vine.' They land on the building-vs-body distinction: one is people showing up in a building, the other is the bride of Christ living and serving.
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