“We live in a similar slavery. True, we have, in Western countries, abolished the institutionalized forms of slavery and all but eliminated a servant class, but the experience of servitude is still among us and is oppressive as ever. Freedom is on everyone’s lips. Freedom is announced and celebrated. But not many feel free. Evidence? We live in a nation of complainers and a society of addicts. Everywhere we turn we hear complaints: I can’t spend my money the way I want; I can’t be myself; I’m under the control of others all the time. And everywhere we meet the addicts—addiction to alcohol and drugs, to compulsive work habits and to obsessive consumption. We trade masters, we stay enslaved.” –Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
2 Corinthians 5:21
Matthew 11:28-30