Ancient Words, Modern Embodiments: Does our Reading Bring Freedom?
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In a sermon by Carl Garrison, he asks the question: What do we do with ancient words in a world where those same words have been used both to liberate and to oppress? In this message from Luke 4:16–30, John 5:39–40, Mark 2:27, and Matthew 7:24–27, Carl explores how Jesus engaged scripture, not as a rulebook to quote, but as a living argument to wrestle, embody, and risk. Jesus read the text through the bodies of the oppressed, bent it toward the margins, and got killed for it. Carl calls us to do the same: to ask not just whether we’re reading correctly, but whether our reading is bringing freedom, or protecting the systems Jesus spent his life resisting.