Church and repression: series

No, this isn't really going to be an anti-church diatribe. Or maybe it is.

Jesus is clear: we are the light of the world. Yet we try to replace ourselves with the "church" as the light. How does an institution replace God's creatures? Typical church-think has us "worship" God with a service, but in the new covenant, it is clear -- our lives are our worship. As a second century "bishop" said "The glory of God is man come fully alive". Transformed lives, not a song service, is our worship.

But when I speak of "church and oppression", I'm talking about various "church practices", not God's ideal, that repress us. So each topic in this series will look at a practice and how it represses one from experiencing either life to the full, or one's fullest potential.