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What does it really mean to be a Christian?

What do I have to do to follow Christ?

Do I need to be baptised or sign up

To one particular church or take advice

From those who claim to know the truth and follow

Every letter of their written laws

Handed down from time immemorial

Except for that obscure and tiny clause

Which was dropped somewhere along the way

Because it did not fit the current fashion

And, anyway, no one seemed to care

For those who did were all hot-heads whose passion

Harped on and on that we should simply be

Like Jesus, who alone could set us free.

Brian Hick August 2014

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