[The Grammarian]

Actually, I was doing this quite deliberately. Corporations aren't people, the argument goes--but guess what, all of its actors are!

So it is here. I am not addressing 'org charts' while metmom speaks of spiritual states; I reject the presented dichotomy as a false dichotomy born out of a hyper-individualistic soteriology that supposes that we can be Christ-followers in isolation from one another.

[metmom]

So it is here. I am not addressing 'org charts' while metmom speaks of spiritual states; I reject the presented dichotomy as a false dichotomy born out of a hyper-individualistic soteriology that supposes that we can be Christ-followers in isolation from one another.

Only Catholics are so good at making assumptions about what other people mean with no basis whatsoever.

And you know what? People can be Christ followers in isolation. Indeed, many people are forced into it due to circumstances beyond their control.

A person does NOT need a church, a denomination, an organization, to follow Christ.

A follower of Christ just needs the leading of the Holy Spirit who is the indwelling presence in the believer.

A Christian is one who's one inwardly, not one outwardly based on being a card carrying member of XYZ church.

[Talisker]

I reject the presented dichotomy as a false dichotomy born out of a hyper-individualistic soteriology that supposes that we can be Christ-followers in isolation from one another.

That's a helluva statement. But it makes my reply simple: I reject anyone's insistence on coming between me and God as satanic - by definition.

Glad we understand each other.