Matt Crain - Polyamory as a Choice?

Matt Crain is a good friend of mine.  He is a father, a mentor, a husband and someone with wisdom and knowledge that I one day hope to have.  He wrote a blog that I wanted to share with you.  He has some good insights and then you need to have him come and talk to your church, civic organization, teacher groups.  You can contact him here.

In a day where society norms are changing and the way things have "always been" are anything but, how do we deal with relationships that challenge the "norm" and how do they affect our relationships with others.  To stick our head in the proverbial sand and say that it does not have an effect on my kids/grandkids is stupid...Just. Plain. Stupid.  (I wonder if I used affect/effect correctly...oh well, English is my second language. hillbilly is my first.)

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Double Jeopardy

Hi, this is your host Alex Tre...no, sadly not, however, Alex may feel at home with this topic as well as Ashley Judd or Tommy Lee Jones.  Double Jeopardy is a concept that a person can't be charged for the same crime twice...or just think of the 1999 movie, and you get the point.  In that movie, Ashley Judd is found guilty of killing her husband only to find out that he is still alive and safe from being prosecuted a second time of killing her husband.

I grew up believing that unless all of your sins were up to date and accounted for, you would die and God wouldn't allow you to see heaven because you had unforgiven sin and thus couldn't be admitted.  While that scared me and made me drive safe and watch my language, that's not the case.  God's grace and love is very much more far reaching than my concept.

Let me ask this question: For which sin did Jesus NOT die?  None.  He died for ALL sin.  His blood covered the sinful act of Judas (Will Judas be in heaven? I'm not discussing that right now) and the white lie that I tell my wife when I say that I cleaned up the house (hey, pushing stuff under the furniture counts...right?).  His forgiveness, blood, and sacrifice was for ALL sin, if not, then he was not our perfect sacrifice and we will never know if our sins were TRULY forgiven. This, however, is not the case.

In 1 John the Bible says that as long as we walk in the light as he is in the light we are continually cleansed from our sin.  So if we are walking in the light and our life proves that by pointing to him, then we are safe...free...never to be held accountable for the sin that we have committed today because Jesus died for those sins too.  No longer do you have to be nervous, hoping that do everything right, and try to walk some spiritual minefield making sure that you don't make a mistake so that God can blow you out of the sky.  You. Are. Free.

Free to move and act and point to God. Using your gifts to point others to him. Free to worship and live a life that points others to him.  Free from judgement because God knows your heart.  Free.  Not free to live life as you want to live, but free from living in fear of getting "something" wrong.

I hear you saying, "Wait doesn't the bible talk about your sin and acknowledging it."  Yes. but as I understand those passages, it refers to us acknowledging that we have sin, that we are guilty.  Sometimes we can get too big for our britches and forget that we have sin, or that we DID something to make God have to forgive us.  Confessing our sin to each other reminds us and others that, we are human, we WILL make mistakes and the the love and grace of God covers us and we didn't do this by our own accord.

So today, live free.  Allow the Holy Spirit to move through you, leading you where he will and act on what you see.  You have been saved from sin to live for Jesus...then LIVE for him.