Get Up and Go

28 / Afterword

governed by a different set of motives, all of which flow from our allegiance to Christ and his Kingdom. Believers in Christ who know what Christ has done for them are set free to “get up and go,” to live as spectacles in the world, to literally behave as “fools for Christ,” because of an explicit desire to accomplish God’s will in the world, and to advance his Kingdom, wherever we are. The following texts reveal the basic Christian appeal to use our freedom to love others and change our world, in Christ’s name: And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great command- ment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” ~ Matthew 22.35-40 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. ~ Galatians 5.1