I've been coming back to this all day, trying to figure out what it is that I want to say, and I can't find the words. I love this overview . . . and there's so much I want add to it . . . additional thoughts, further ideas, distinctions and caveats, all of it. I think the thing that strikes me most, though, is the huge amount of freedom we have. And we say we want this freedom, but in the end it scares us. Then we want to put God behind all of our decisions. Instead, I think there's a place where we embrace the freedom and trust God with what we fear. Sometimes we'll miss the Holy Spirit, other times the community won't discern correctly, and other times we'll misapply what the Bible says, but God is in it all. He doesn't abandon us when we're wrong, when we do our best and try and fail, and so often there are lessons in that that we wouldn't learn otherwise. So we step out into our freedom and make our decisions, knowing that we're deeply loved even if the worst happens. I LOVE that!