In this Category we tackle asceticism and legalism. Its all about eliminating the checked-boxes and finding freedom in Christ!
The post explores the pitfalls of purity culture, contrasting it with the freedom found in grace through Christ. It emphasizes that Jesus set an impossibly high standard to highlight humanity’s inability to achieve righteousness alone. Instead of moral perfection, He offers grace that transforms hearts, liberating believers from sin’s power and shame.
Purity culture promised holiness. What it produced instead was shame, secrecy, and a generation of young believers who felt they could never measure up. The ideal was always just out of reach — and the harder people tried to grasp it, the more condemnation they felt.
When Good Intentions Become Heavy Burdens Mennonite Roots and Early Lessons My wife and I both grew up in a strict Mennonite church culture. Her dad was an Old Colony pastor, deeply sincere and earnest in his desire to help people find assurance of salvation in Christ. The church itself was highly traditional: men and…
“Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today’s speech we would call them gameplans. A person can erect some sort of structure, some type of limited frame in which he lives, shutting himself up in that frame and not looking beyond it.” ― Francis…
