Freely Sowing, Serving, and Sharing” was the theme for the English District of the LWML back in April. The theme comes from Galatians 5:13, “For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” The LWML for years has been a service organization that has at its center the support of missionaries.
Many years ago Wayne Saffen wrote in Concordia Theological Journal that “freedom is not something you find or achieve. It is a release, a new birth, a gift, a calling. Our human destiny of freedom, frustrated and forfeited by sin, is restored to us by Jesus Christ, who became a servant, one of us, a life-span human,
to live as a man among us and to die to set us free from death, caused by sin. For the Christian freedom is always realized in community, the community of church and neighborhood. It is a freedom in service (bondage, slavery) to God and man………thus Christian freedom is unconditional and not environ-
mental.”
The LWML Pledge says that the dedication of all that we have to bringing the lost and erring to Christ is the result of our freedom from death won by Christ on the Cross.
