Oak Ridge Presbyterian Church recently issued the following announcement.
July 5, 2020
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Can you believe it? July as well as summer with its unrelenting heat are upon us. And so comes the 4th. A day which commemorates freedom for a nation and its people. A day in which celebrations and parties are had. A day in which free people give thanks for freedom.
Paul speaks of freedom for Christians in Romans. But this freedom isn’t like national, political, or civic freedoms; it’s sin-freedom, it’s death-freedom, it’s love-freedom. The freedom we receive from Christ through his resurrection from death and oneness with God frees us from sin and it’s control, frees us from death and it’s seeming finality, frees us to love our neighbors and enemies and fellow citizens and non-citizens and all of creation. This is freedom. A freedom to live for Christ, which, admittedly, is a freedom to live a life of service unto others, not our own desires.
As Paul also reminds us, where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Friends, let us be in the Spirit and let us live in Christ’s freedom, for we are citizens of the Kingdom of God.
In Christ,
Taylor
Original source can be found here.
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