Join us this Independence Sunday as Pastor Karen Crawford teaches that when we give our life to Christ we can declare "I am free!”

Jesus followers are free. In North America our perspective of the word "free" is much different than our Christian brothers and sisters in other parts of the world. There, Christ-followers are Spiritually free in every way, as we are, but are not as free as we are to express their faith in a public way.

As Paul wrote the book of Romans he had faced his share of persecution. Paul had been whipped, beaten, tortured, imprisoned and left for dead. He was one of many thousands of Christians during the first 300 years of the Church to be treated this way.

When you read a New Testament text you need to keep this perspective in your mind at all times — that the person who wrote that book more than likely was persecuted and killed for preaching about Jesus. So how could these writers say something like this, "For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love." Galatians 5:13

Our readings for the day will be from Psalm 119:41-45; Romans 6:12-23, 8:1-4; Galatians 4:4-7 & 5:1,13

Don't miss out on this special occasion to come together as a community and celebrate our Freedom in Christ!