This is an introduction to our next post — Bound by Grace — an article written thirty years ago. We will be adding a second part –Free to Love, looking at who we are when we think we are free without God, and then to the beauty and power of God’s grace and liberty that He gives through His Son, Jesus Christ.
If you ask different people what it means to be free, you will get a variety of answers. For a non-believer, freedom means that they are answerable to no one, able to do whatever they want without restrictions, especially without God.
What is the danger in this kind of freedom?
Imagine intersections without traffic lights and roads without speed zones. If everybody had this freedom, who would be safe? Everyone would have the license to destroy other people who get in their way.
The danger of freedom applies to a Christian as…
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What I wrote: “Good post! I can’t wait to read your installment tomorrow of an article first written 30 years ago. I think you made a good distinction between two kinds of freedom while also pointing we don’t libertarian free will. God bless you Frances.”
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