A Fruitful Faith

As a western democracy, one of the values we cherish the most is the value of freedom. Whether it is the freedom of conscience and religion, the freedom of thought and speech, or the freedom of assembly and association, people from all over the world leave their homes, sometimes making treacherous journeys, just to immigrate to our country, in search of the very freedoms we enjoy and even take for granted. But what is freedom, really? Especially as a follower of Jesus, what does it mean to be free from sin and religion, as Galatians has been insisting? What does it look like to live a life that, by grace through faith in Christ, is truly free?