“Where the spirit of the Lord
is, there is freedom.” 2 Corinthians
3:17
As a father, I delight to see my children make their own
decisions. God is the same way. He wants to see us choose. He made us creative; He wants to see us
create. He gave us the gift of flight;
He wants to see us soar.
Life seems to conspire against the exercise of our
freedom. Whenever we organize a
government, it begins to encroach on our ability to choose. Yesterday I learned that Rudolf’s (a local
restaurant) had to close down its live music piano bar because the permits cost
too much. Instead they have to use a
player piano.
The church similarly over time is inevitably run by law-making
bureaucrats who define theology and praxis ever more narrowly until the
abundant life Jesus promised becomes a thin gruel and a crust of bread.
Every new generation has the opportunity to fight for and
win its freedoms all over again. It is
inevitable that the rule-makers will rise up and find ways to circumscribe
freedom. Judicious, Spirit-led rule
makers, though they be few, will occasionally fight back and seek an
appropriate balance. They must be
nurtured and applauded for their courage.
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Seth Barnes
I'm motivated to join God in his global reclamation project. He's on the move, setting his sons and daughters free from their places of captivity. And he's partnering with those of us who have been freed to go and free others.
Seth, I watched Braveheart (as I work on the warrior journal) again today, with the commentary on, and I am not sure who said it, but they were talking about William Wallace: “he would rather shed every drop of his own blood than compromise an inch” sounds like our saviour huh? With Wallace’s last word: FREEDOM!