How are you and I ‘free in Christ?’ Barnabas got a free ticket to life at the expense of a perfect man. Our freedom is far more than a ticket to heaven. It’s a freedom to become someone new, leaving the old behind. Being free to live on purpose and have a deep meaning for each day is true freedom. It’s breaking free of of the bondage, being a slave to trying hard to be someone we were never meant to be. Being free is having a new identity in Christ, and viewing all of life with a different perspective.
“Wholeness can also be described as soulfulness, a life that’s centered, passionately engaged, open, creative, connected, and propelled by a sense of mission. It is this kind of wholeness that leaders need to cultivate in themselves and in those under their leadership.” - Chuck DeGroat, Toughest People to Love
“The actions of the chief priests and council portray the underbelly of the ego-centric self, constructed out of the yeast (thinking) of the Pharisees and Herod. Their actions depict the manipulation of power, with no regard for truth, to achieve their self-serving ends. They used power against one they viewed as “other,” plotting to have him killed and the threat he posed removed. In their actions, the religious facade is removed so that we see the yeast of the Pharisees and Herod for what it really is.” - Excerpt, Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark by Steve Langford
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