DO THIS, DON'T DO THAT

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You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
Acts 15:29 NIV

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord...Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:22‭, ‬25 ESV

¶Many parts of our world today deal with the issues of safety for women and family stability in the same way as they did then. What may have changed, however is how the rules are enforced. What started as cultural norms have been codified into laws which control the lives, especially of women. External codes which control how women dress, where they may go, the need for a male guardian, such things still attempt to impose structure and stability on the outside, but are internally rife with societal corruption and family violence. But what if there were people, men and women, both fully free and with full agency, who could love each other from the heart, all the requirements of the law fulfilled, not by the sword, but by the Spirit? Christ has come; He is risen; He has departed. Now it is up to us to work out our salvation, according to His Spirit working within us.

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