I created the Shovel Shack as an outlet to discuss and express our life in Christ - that very miraculous life that has been freely received through faith. There is much encouragement, strength, understanding, revealing, comforting, joyous freedom, and even valuable confrontation that has taken place in the many Shovel Shack discussions over the past few years. Please know that even though conflicting points of view to the reality of Christ (as found on the Shovel web site) are not discouraged from being discussed this forum is not a platform for those who want to establish their own religious agendas.

Instead of presenting useless rules and regulations designed as an attempt to produce conformity and/or "safety" I will simply tell you of my desires for the Shovel Shack, which are:

• that we would come to see more and more the openness that exists only in the narrowness of Christ.
• that we would come to tolerate the freedom of another, not based upon "freedom of speech", but upon the miraculous reality of Christ.
• that we would discover the reality of how our own true freedom in Christ allows us to truly hear beyond the limitations of words and communication skills so that our responses are not merely reactions, but instead, living expressions of hearts set free.
• that our words would continue more and more to be real expressions of our freed hearts and not to a learned conformity or established pattern of our "persona".
• that we would stand upon the only real freedom that has ever existed in this world, which is such a miraculous freedom that it keeps turning our world upside down so that we find ourselves strangely concerned about the freedom of another even beyond our own.

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If the Shovel Shack sounds like something you'd like to participate in, then by all means continue! :)