The Christian Household

The Christian Household
Colossians 3.18-4.1

There was once a country ruled by a strict and severe president. He made laws about everything and enforced them rigidly. He laid down what time people were to get up and go to bed. He told them what food they should eat and how to cook it. He made regulations about who could own a car and where and when they could drive it. Nothing was left to chance. The country was tidy, but utterly repressed.

One day, quite suddenly, the president was taken ill and died. His successor declared that things were now going to be very different. All the old restrictions were to be abolished. People were to be free to do as they wished. There was great celebration, and everyone was thrilled to think of all the new possibilities that would open out in front of them...

Taken from Paul for Everyone – The Prison Letters by Tom Wright