When we become followers of Christ, we are set free.

But more than that, we become liberators: primarily, of the people around us – our friends, our families, our co-workers.

We liberate them from our pride, our arrogance, our anger, our hatred, our petty cycles of vengeance, our selfishness.

It’s not just a matter of liberating them from their sin.

It is first a matter of releasing them from our sins.

“It is for freedom” – perhaps, for the freedom of others – “that he has set us free!”