When Michael Card first started attending an African American church, he was struck by how the congregation worshiped Jesus as ‘Master.’ He soon learned that during slavery, calling Jesus ‘Master’ was a subtle way of saying that their earthly masters were not their true Master. This insight led Card on a journey of discovery, as he wondered, ‘What did it mean for African American slaves to acknowledge Jesus as Master? What did Paul, Peter, Jude and James mean when they acknowledged themselves as Christ's slaves? What would it mean for you and me to take upon ourselves the title 'slave of Christ'?’A Better Freedom explores the biblical imagery of slavery as a metaphor for Christian discipleship. Michael Card shows how the early church saw Greco-Roman slavery as a window into understanding Jesus both as the Savior who took on the form of a slave, but also the true Lord and Master who sets us free from our own slavery to sin. Come, let yourself be captured by the Master. And discover how you can be truly set free.
Cuprins
I. Introduction: Beginning a Journey
1. ‘My Master’
2. A Better Freedom
3. One Word, Three Worlds
Part II: Becoming Slaves of Christ
4. ‘I, Paul, a Slave of Christ’
5. My Son, Onesimus
6. Eye-Slaves and People-Pleasers
7. Your Father’s Name
8. ‘Don’t Worry About It’
9. Freed From and Freed To
Part III. Encountering Christ the Slave
10. Christ the Slave
11. Slaves Who Waited for the Way
12. Parables of Slavery
13. The Servant Savior
14. The Death of a Slave
15. Breakfast With a Wounded Slave
16. ‘Capture Me, for I Am Fleeing’
Epilogue: Freedom
Coda by Sara Groves
Appendix A: Comparison of the Three Worlds of Slavery
Appendix B: A Lexicon of Slavery
Appendix C: A Letter Written on Behalf of a Runaway Slave
Appendix D: A List of Possible Slave Names in the New Testament
Appendix E: The Facts of Modern Slavery
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Despre autor
Michael Card is an award-winning musician, performing artist and teacher of Scripture. His many books include Scribbling in the Sand, A Fragile Stone, A Better Freedom and the Biblical Imagination Series. Card and his family live in Tennessee.
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