![]() ![]() How many times have we heard that the gospel offers people a personal relationship with Jesus Christ? What exactly does that mean? Personal fulfillment, personal liberation, personal satisfaction all bound up in an old term in evangelical Christianity, a personal relationship. In fact, there are books being written about dreams as if they are gifts from God, which God then having given them is bound to fulfill. He wants to fulfill every ambition, every desire, every hope, every dream. We often hear that God loves you unconditionally and wants you to be all you want to be. It is about health, wealth, prosperity, finding your own fulfillment, fulfilling your own dream, finding your own purpose. ![]() In contemporary Christianity, the language is anything but slave language. You would never suspect that, however, from the language of Christianity. I actually finished the book on the flight I was so rapt in my attention to this particular theme.īeing a slave of Christ may be the best way to define a Christian. It set me thinking in all kinds of directions. It was not too many months ago that I was flying on one of those jumbo jets from Los Angeles to London, in the process reading a book that dealt with the issue of slavery in the New Testament time and in the New Testament text. And I’ve been made aware of that in recent months. We’re going to turn to a subject in the New Testament that, as I – as I think about it, is largely ignored and overlooked. ![]()
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