Brazzel, Debra K
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Through an ironic reversal of appearances in which those who seemed free are revealed to be enslaved and those who seemed enslaved were free, the story of Paul and Silas' rescuing of the slave girl and their subsequent imprisonment displays a picture of God as the great liberator who desires to free us from our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual prisons. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)Key quotation: “This story reveals a God who seeks our physical freedom––the chains of all the prisoner were broken loose. But even more radically, this is a God who desires for us to have mental, emotional, and spiritual freedom. This is the God who, through Christ, enters into the darkest night to find us. This is the God who sends an earthquake to shake loose the foundations of our prisons and release our shackles.”
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Duke University. Chapel
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North Carolina Digital Heritage CenterKeywords
- Choice
- Freedom
- God (Christianity)
- Greed
- Imprisonment
- Lord's Supper
- Love
- Military
- Poverty
- Slaver
- Slavery
- Suffering
- War
