Men have always loved practical discussions, but yesterday, our beloved pastor was really hung up on how he had transitioned away from a smart phone and back to the old school flip phone that forces him to only communicate with the verbal form of his words. This stirred up all kinds of emotional energy from men whose lives had been transformed radically by technology in a positive direction.
The topic of "libertine vs legalist" mentality was born out of our pastor's back to the future experience with his communicator. In the simple mind of a man, this seems to be a choice of one versus the other. The geometric point where you sit on the geometric line from one to the other determines how you will see any given person on that line.Man comes up with powerful statements like, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
In worship this morning, we declared that Jesus is our chain breaker. That deflates our strength and our tools in one fell swoop. As we sang the declaration together, I began to see all the chains that I had broken in the past were temporary. I even began to think of chains like muscles. If you break muscle it comes back stronger. Makes me wonder if you break mental or spiritual chains with muscle, if those chains come back stronger.
I don't know the answer from any geometric point other than mine, but for today, I believe that unless you solve the problem in the domain of the problem, it will come back when you least expect it and it will come back stronger, like a flip phone.
