How Christ can set you free ...

Humans are creatures of habit, and habits are not always easily changed. The habit I most recently changed is in the area of time management after a number of experiences. Such were a combination of Marcus Buckingham's work on strength-based planning; in both reading and teaching from books by Steven Covey such as The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People; and my EQ-360 evaluation survey completed by family, friends, supervisors, peers, and local church staff. Such is continuing to reshape my self-understanding and moving from that to life application. This gradual change process is now two years in the undertaking, and my experience is that although Jesus Christ can instantly set us free from what can limit us, it is usually a gradual process.

How is Jesus Christ setting me free?

• He lives as an example of freedom which is a life in which he is less governed by human interpretations of love and more concerned with God's self-giving interpretation;
• Christ was willing to be so self-giving he would give up his life for all creation to set me free;
• Christ was raised from death as a visible demonstration of the power of God that can even change the world ... change each of us ... change me;
• Christ sends his Spirit to live among us empowering us to center our lives on loving God, neighbor, enemy and self ... such is true for me as well;
• Christ gave us a message to live by and to tell of ... "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life".