I want to think of myself as starting in a neutral position: there is good and evil, on either side, and along with everyone else I am in the middle.  And I can make a choice, I can choose good and move one way or choose evil and move the other.  But always I have the possibility of return to my starting position, it might be hard but I can get back to the beginning and rechoose if I choose to do so.

Notice, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, how in today’s Gospel the man is “from the city.”  He has his home, his citizenship, but has been deprived of his birthright: no longer does he live in his house but wears no clothes and lives like those already dead who are in the tombs.  He has lost his dignity and is tormented and in slavery to the many demons possessing him.  For him there is no neutral, there is no middle state, he is either naked among the tombs or “clothed and in his right mind.”

And there is, truly, no middle ground for us, we are either actively trying to follow God—sinning along the way yet repenting too—or we are not.  And when I am dwelling in death the Lord sees me as I truly am, sees me in my sinful and abominable state, but is not revolted by me.  He sees me and again frees me from my slavery, sets me at liberty, restores my freedom.  And he sets no condition on me, no compulsion, but I cannot stay neutral—I must either be clothed and in my right mind or I will return to the tombs for more torment.

Brethren, you are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.
— Second Corinthians 6:16–18, 7:1

At that time, as Jesus arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, there met him a man from the city who had demons; for a long time he had worn no clothes and he lived not in a house but among the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you, do not torment me.” For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him; he was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters, but he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the desert.) Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion” for many demons had entered him. And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss. Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them leave. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. When the herdsmen saw what happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country. Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. And those who had seen it told them how he who had been possessed with demons was healed. Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them; for they were seized with great fear; so he got into the boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him; but he sent him away, saying, “Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.
— Luke 8:26–39