TL
2009-12-07
Mark wrote:
””10. I believe that i will be held accountable for my leadership or lack of as a husband and a father, in the same way that leaders of the church will be held accountable for the way they lead the church. Cheryl, do you think you will be held accountable for what you are teaching people about this issue?”
No one is held accountable for another person’s sins. You are correct that you will be held accountable for how you treat your wife. You will be held accountable for whether or not your treatment of her releases her to life and liveliness, releases her to serve God to the fullest of her capabilities, encourages her to be more like Christ, releases her to be who she is in Christ and be all that she can be. You will be held accountable for that and for the times your treatment wounds her, hinders her, keeps her from being who God wants her to be, and keeps her from being herself.
IMO one of the biggest evils that “Christiandumb” produces in fellow Christians is a falseness of persona that happens when we box groups of people into categories. God loves and delights in each individual human that has ever lived and ever will live. In the womb God weaves a personality that is wonderful and awesome. In Christ, it should be our desire to release each person to be themselves as God created them to be and to encourage them to seek and operate in the gifts that God wants them to minister to the world in.
To sway a person from being who God wants them to be can only be wicked; it cannot be good. Yet, the church in general throughout history has mirrored itself with the world in wanting to segregate and divide the people of God in ways contrary to God’s desire. Christ said that we should be One, united together serving His Love to each other and the world. Yet, we still want to control who does what, when and where to the degree that the church today is so often not all that enjoyable in attending the required (more controlling) Sunday services, sitting through the controlled same type of services all year long, with the same people doing the talking…. And so on.
From my observations, many are tired of the divisions. What people want is to be surprised and blest by the uniquenesses and creativity of Christ in others. Why do you suppose? Perhaps, it encourages them to learn to be the pure good personality that Christ created them to be and whom the Holy Spirit wants to use to serve God’s Love to others with.