True Liberation
What’s one tangible act of solidarity I can take this week that reflects a Christ-centered vision of liberation?
Galatians 3:27-28
All of you who have been baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. In Christ there is no Jew or Greek, slave or citizen, male or female. All are one in Christ Jesus.
“Your categories that create hierarchies of power and oppression are no more in the world where Christ is liberator.” That’s what I hear these verses saying.
I think it’s vital in our current context that we get really clear about what liberation actually means. Liberation is not freedom from interdependence. It’s not a bludgeon with which the most powerful nation in the world devastates its impoverished neighbors.
No. Liberation is the act of redistributing wealth and power in a way that allows for equitable relationships to actually be possible.
Liberation means a destruction of the categories that would give the powerful “justification” for hoarding their wealth and power. Categories around gender, race, immigration status, nationality, etc. are used as tools for oppression. And in Christ, we’re told that those categories are obliterated. Thanks be to God.
In what ways have I benefited from systems that uphold hierarchy or oppression? How does that awareness sit in my body? What’s one tangible act of solidarity I can take this week that reflects a Christ-centered vision of liberation?
— Candace Woods