Laughing on the Highway of Holiness

When it comes to form and freedom, people have a tendency to opt for one or the other, which is a really bad idea. You can find families, churches, or organizations that are all form without freedom or all freedom without form. Form without freedom is strict enough, but suffocating, like a well-orderd classroom in which nobody learns anything. Freedom without form is wild enough, but one does question whether the kids should be doing back flips off of grandma’s china cabinet.

The natural man’s instinct is to pull back on the freedom or relax the form. Man pursues this middle way of mediocrity because it is managable and doesn’t require faith in the God who is three in one and one in three. But Chrisitans follow in the footsteps of the Triune God and that way is freedom in form and form in freedom. Whatever your particular temptation you do not need to add a dash of freedom or add a pinch of form. You need to laugh and bound your way down the highway of holiness, which come to find out is the only way to go down that particular street.

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