'...the Christian life is more helpfully viewed as a journey along a road...to use Jesus' image. Along this road, there is a ditch on both sides. The goal is to avoid both ditches, which means that the difference between good instruction and bad instruction depends upon which ditch you have drifted toward. The problem with the Western view of a rule is that it has to always apply. But "veer right" is only good instruction if you're headed toward the ditch on the left.'
E Randolph Richards and Brandon J O'Brien, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, p.167.
