Little Books Big Impact: Freedom Isn't What You Think

This week's message continues the Little Books, Big Impact series with a look at the book of Philemon, just one chapter and twenty five verses tucked near the back of the New Testament. Pastor Cory showed how Paul asked a slave owner named Philemon to welcome back a runaway named Onesimus, not as property, but as a brother, and offered to personally cover any debt owed. That short letter exposes something we get wrong about freedom, we tend to think it means getting to do whatever we want, but Scripture points somewhere else entirely. From the debt Paul offered to pay to the call to stop feeding gossip and choose reconciliation instead, the message challenged us to ask what our freedom is actually for. Freedom starts to make sense as we trust that Jesus paid our debt first, so we could be free to help others find life in Him.