"Hide-Bound" Mentality!

A quote from Ms. Shovel over at The Shack:


One of my biggest frustrations with religious institutions and religious mindedness is the whole 'hide-bound' mentality (to borrow a Shovel-phrase). You know, the 'hide-bound' mentality that the 'Word of GOD' is actually limited and totally defined as the written words on the page/pages, and not actually a Person!! (thank you Shovel for always pointing that out to me) It seems totally missed that the Word of GOD is actually GOD Himself revealed in Christ Jesus, and now in us as well. It is 'missed' ... the very Living Person the words are actually written about!

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Entering into this fullness

Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It's not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you're already in--insiders--not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin.

Col 2:11

Savior of all men?

For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

(1 Timothy 4:10)