Science Social Issues Theology Christian Liberty Gregory Koukl Sign up to receive Solid Ground free. The very nature of Christian liberty is such that you can't really draw the line. Where the line is drawn is in the direct, specific, and explicit commands of God. The danger that we take things that are not actually commands, maybe general principles, and find an applicational rule, and we make that rule equal with God's law. God tells us not to be worldly.
Some people determine that dancing is worldly, so they make dancing a sin.
They make that application incumbent upon everybody else. Obviously, you don't want to fall into that trap because that kind of genuine legalism does not build Christian maturity. The way to build Christian maturity is not to pass a bunch of new rules that aren't God's rules but man's rules. Rather, Christian maturity is to teach Christians to exercise judicial judgment in the way they exercise their own liberty. Give them principles and then leave them to themselves to decide for themselves.