You are free

5 Responses to “You are free”

1. cara on April 29th, 2008 9:32 am

   Amen.

2. Age on April 29th, 2008 2:48 pm

   mmmmm life in all it’s fullness.

   Sad - true - screams for us to find another way(s).

   Good find Rus.

3. Adam on May 2nd, 2008 12:08 am

   I think there’s freedom in structure. Employment is necessary. Education is necessary. If you don’t walk on the pavement you’ll get hit by a car - where’s the freedom in that?

   I can understand the message behind it. Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed… that’s essentially the message.

   We find freedom in Christ - yet we are slaves to Christ. A part of that servanthood to Christ is participating in social norms. We are in the world but not of the world.

   Freedom must exist in structure of some kind, or else its chaos.

4. Simonius on May 2nd, 2008 11:38 am

   That’s golden. I do agree with Adam, though. There is freedom in structure. The structure described on the wall is suffocating, though.

5. Age on May 3rd, 2008 2:18 pm

   Yeah I see where you’re coming from. Being run over for Jesus has a strange ring to it

   I guess my response is more about ‘not conforming to this world’ of acquisition and security blindly living in a way that fails to see that our profits and excess is the food money of others. That when we are ‘in the world and not of it’ we would have different values and live differently to our neighbours stuck in such a rut. I just don’t think we do. Our (Christian) conformity to the values of security and respectability stand in contrast to the Jesus who suggests we give all to the poor, give to any who ask, seek first the kingdom of God and was killed by the powers/authorities of the day.

   This message on a wall describes (all be it simply) the focus and effort of many of our lives… and to what end and whose cost?

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