This is a Multi-Part Study Series that discusses aspects of our separation from man-controlled organized relgious organizations and how God uses them for the good in provoking us to find our satisfaction in relationship with Jesus Christ as our All-sufficnent all.

Many are bound by what I call soulical ties to their old church, group or the individuals within them. This may be a tie to someone who led us to Christ, or through whom you learned about Christ. By now you have outgrown them and you realize that they may want to rule you, possess you and bind you to religion by such ties.  Some of us will walk away while others, such as myself are expelled just as the bind man, who could now see, was “cast out.” Sadly, most will remain in the bondage of the religious law organizations of man. A few may stay in the “fold” of religion for a time, as the Shepherd may allow them, but they are no longer internally bound by it. Many will be pushed out, shunned or asked to leave the “fold” as my wife and I have been multiple times in our 50-year journey of coming to know Christ. We must recognize that it is God working in all these episodes of life “for the good” of His children. This is just as the mother eagle removes the soft feathers from the prickly nest, making it uncomfortable when it is time for her eaglets to fly away.