What is True Freedom and How Do We Find It?

11/06/23 • 23 min

Do you feel like you are truly living in freedom? Is there an ease and lightness in your head and heart about your life and relationships? Is the idea of “freedom in Christ” just a nice sentiment... or does it have real implications for our lives today? This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we talk through the idea of freedom in Christ, what true freedom is, and how one finds and sustains it. In This Episode You’ll Learn:

What the Bible teaches about the experience of freedom.
Is the freedom that's found in Jesus real for today, or is it an “in heaven” thing?
Does freedom in Christ come with conditions or obligations?
How our complacency may be dampening our experience of true freedom.

Get started here... From this episode: “Ultimate freedom comes from release. In Christ we are released from having to create and produce ultimate outcomes, free to release what others think or believe about us or about God. Freedom from the tyranny of living like we are God...” Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. Download today’s BIG 3 right now. Read and think over them again later. You might even want to share them with others...

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What the Bible teaches about the experience of freedom.
Is the freedom that's found in Jesus real for today, or is it an “in heaven” thing?
Does freedom in Christ come with conditions or obligations?
How our complacency may be dampening our experience of true freedom.

Thanks for Listening!

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With all of the changes we’ve seen in life over the past several months and years, many people I know have stalled in their disciple-making and living life on mission. Everything is different, and many seem to have lost their way—feeling a bit stuck. Waiting... In this episode of the Everyday Disciple Podcast, Caesar gives you 7 things to help get you unstuck, be encouraged, and start to bloom where God has planted you. In This Episode You’ll Learn:

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Small steps you can take, starting today!

Get started here... From this episode: “Every step in life God is preparing you for the next one. Do you believe that? How are you stewarding all that God has given you now? Not just your stuff, but your circumstances. Yep, we get to steward our circumstances too. Stewardship is not just about money and hard resources. Luke 16:10 'Faithful with a little...faithful with a lot.' Our good Father in heaven is always preparing us for what’s next on our journey of becoming more and more like Jesus and showing others the way.” Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. Download today’s BIG 3 right now. Read and think over them again later. You might even want to share them with others...

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Living on Mission When Your Spouse Is Not Into It

Discipleship starts in your home and works its way out through relationships. So our families and marriages need to be the “red hot center” of discipleship that we invite others into. But what happens if you’re trying to live on Mission and your spouse is not into it? This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we talk about the challenges that come up when we are not on the same page as a couple when it comes to discipleship and mission. Whether a not-yet-believer or your spouse is just not into this “missional thing”, we’ll help you break through and live the life you’ve been called to live! In This Episode You’ll Learn:

What the Bible teaches about having an “unbelieving” spouse.
Why no Christians get a pass on making disciples.
How to start where you’re at, with what you CAN do, rather than focusing on the limitations.
10+ ideas to get you started living on Mission even if your spouse is not into it.

Get started here... From this episode: “If your Believing spouse is choosing to live without a sense of missional impulse, not interested in making disciples of Jesus, it is often either ignorance, because the church doesn’t really teach this a whole lot, or some sort of unbelief that’s keeping them from this life.” Each week the Big 3 will give you immediate action steps to get you started. Download today’s BIG 3 right now. Read and think over them again later. You might even want to share them with others...

Thanks for Listening!

Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Join us on Facebook and take part in the discussion! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of this page or right below. Also, please subscribe and leave an honest review for The Everyday Disciple Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and we read each and every one of them. Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Coaching with Caesar and Tina in Discipleship and Missional living. Get Caesar’s book, Transformed: Discipleship and Mission as a Lifestyle HERE. Discipleship and Missional Resources Missio Publishing In light of today’s topics, you might find these posts and videos helpful: How Do Introverted People Stay Engaged in a Missional Life?

Everyday Disciple Podcast - What is True Freedom and How Do We Find It?

Transcript

Caesar Kalinowski00:00:01.500

I think the reason we do get complacent, even as believers, and we don't live like pursuing the freedom that we have in Christ, is we live in unbelief of what's really true of God and what he says is true of us and how we get to live within that. which produces this best life ever. We don't actually know that it's real and possible now. Sure. So we live in unbelief thinking, Oh, I guess I have to earn it. Or I guess maybe going to church