Very rarely does a book just upend your view of God and the Christian life. This is one of those books. A Scandalous Freedom is about just that, freedom in Christ that much of the world is going to find scandalous. Dr Brown's thesis is that we are truly free in Christ and that Christian leaders and plain old Christians spend a lot of their time stealing other Christian's freedoms. The point of freedom is not "freedom, but... " If there is a but, it's not really freedom.
How many of us have heard we need to limit our freedom to safeguard weaker brothers. Yeah, I know Paul said it, but he said it for a particular situation. If I know my brother is on a diet I shouldn't scarf down a sundae in front of him, but that doesn't mean I can never eat sundaes because someone around me might be on a diet.
Through the whole book I kept saying to myself how bad I want this to be true. 43 years of teaching kept whispering in my mind that this was antinomian. At the end of the book I was confused, but you know what, I felt a little free-er.
some speaker at a conference i went to once said, "the best reader is a confused reader."
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