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%PRESBYNET UNITY MEETING OPEN NOTE #557 IMPORTANT+990815
%ESSENTIAL PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY SCRIPTURE+990815
%ABSENCE ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT DISTRUST HONESTY+990815
%EXCHANGE GIFTS FREEDOM BEING SAFELY VULNERABLE+990815
%COERCIVE VIOLENT DOMINANCE HONESTY INTIMACY SIN 990815
What is essential to personal and communal
integrity and unity?
In coming days I will be suggesting some features in
our relationships which are essential to our enjoyment of
personal and communal integrity; i.e., and unity. While I
believe that my suggestions will be reflective of the
whole of scriptures --- I will make no attempt to quote
book, chapter and verse.
To say that some feature is essential to integrity
--- is not equivalent as saying that it is more important
than any other feature. Many features are essential to
integrity in interwoven ways. The absence of essential
feature --- leads naturally to alienation, estrangement,
distrust, dishonesty, and disintegration. I hope to offer
helpful descriptions; not commandments, prescriptions or
proscriptions.
An essential foundation for our integrity is the
freedom to be safely vulnerable in open and honest
dialogue about what matters most to us.
This essential is about freedom from punitive:
alienation, estrangement, condemnation and/or
excommunication.
This essential is NOT about "honestly" answering
coercive and/or prejudicial questions. It is NOT about
being free of all risks. It is NOT about freedom from all
boundaries and limitations.
In the absence of this essential to integrity ---
many people and their relationships are tragically:
alienated, uninformed, ignorant, confused, biased,
prejudiced, manipulative, coercive, secretive and
deceptive. In the absence of this essential --- may
people become victims of evil relationships.
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