why rules and boundaries can never and will never define my relationships--any of them!

 "Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law" (Gal 5:3, NIV).

I see life as organic, and precious, and undeniably messy. God became man, bearing a flesh marked by sweat and body odor, one that ambulates through the dust, one that hungers and thirsts, and yet He entered a humanity that God has called "good." God embraced the dirtiest and lowliest with open arms, but to do what? He did it to fulfill the law.

I will not make social rules that are binding, because I wish that through relationships and the people God places in my life to be made one with the "big C" Church and thus one with Christ. I wish to be forgiving and to overlook trespasses. I want to be messy and find the people that one whose hands are clean would never look. I want to explore this vast and beautiful world that God has made with respect, but also with a daring spirit.

I think this is why I don't like rules. I think that there are many legitimate times when a guy and girl can be alone before marriage. I think there are many legitimate expressions of love that are not romantic, which I want to be challenged to explore. I want to be stretched in ways that are neither traditionally safe nor properly epistic. Why? Because I want love to remain at my core. I want God to use my heart to melt away social boundaries that are, frankly, destructive. No, life is not all games. . . But God delights in artistic expression. I say, maybe it is good to check and evaluate which laws (like circumcision) are destroying our spirits of expression.