Virtue provides the power of self-possession necessary to avoid the parameters of life that others would impose

I was reacting to the above quote in the previous post , and detoured a bit from that speicific thought (which is yet another reason why I love blogs: that such a thing happens, is often beneficial, and often forces us to realize the linkages we make in our own minds with acquired knowledge). But in “avoiding the parameters of life that others would impose”, we truly are in need of a context of resistance; a faithful and supportive community without whom we are dead meat in the onslaught of modernistic thinking , and the justifications of greed, and the resulating violence that such assumptions necessarily require in order to maintain the status quo.

The church is to be “status quo breakers”; offering us the means with which to be formed in the ways of the Kingdom in contrast to the Kingdoms of this world, and its supporting system and theologies and “educational assumptions”.