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%DIFFERENT KINDS STYLES PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY+981107                                     
%PEOPLE WAYS DISCIPLES LEADER PRESCRIPTION LAWS SIN+981107      
 %ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT EXCOMMUNICATION EXCLUSIVE 981107                       
                                                                                                                               
     Different   people   in  different  situations   find                                     
different  ways to demonstrate both personal and  communal      
integrity.   True Integrity does not depend primarily upon                        
conformity   to   any   exclusive   set   of   scriptures,            
prescriptions,    proscriptions,    commandments,    laws,                                                                     
legalisms,  condemnations,  or grounds for  self-salvation                                                      
and/or  self-righteousness.    Integrity  is not something       
which individuals achieve on their own merit,  or  acquire                   
at  other people's expense on  basis  of  the   merit   of                                                               
their own chosen fellowship of superior people.                   
                                                                                                                               
     Personal  and communal integrity are  utterly  inter-                      
dependent upon each other.  Neither can be sacrificed with                                                               
integrity in the service of itself ---   at the expense of                                                      
the  other  which is an essential   aspect  of  integrity.                  
The integrity  of  one person  or  group  cannot willfully                                                                 
be  advanced  at  the expense of the  integrity of another                                                               
person or group;  e.g.,  through   controls,     coercion,                                
violence,       dishonesty,    collusions,    exclusivity,           
conformity, etc.            
                                                                                                                               
     We cannot enjoy both personal and communal  integrity                                                                
--- while  failing   to  be open and  honest   about   the                                                                  
above essential aspects of integrity.                  
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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