Get Up and Go

DIY, Christian Style: Be a Fool for Christ / 39

lived free. In the end, this focus on freedom, in my mind, is about honoring Christ, about pursuing his will, and about being free to create, innovate, and produce fresh, new experiments that express our love for God and care for others. Through Christ we are now set free from the law, from the principle of sin and death, from the condemna- tion and guilt of our own sin, and the conviction of the law on us. We are free now to serve our God out of gratitude and thankfulness. We don’t celebrate precious freedom in order to make a name for ourselves, to be wiseguys or act like knuckle-heads, but to glorify God and love others. Let’s then be DIY, Christian style, living as happy fools for Christ, finding new ways to love and to care and to serve. The real tragedy in not living free in Christ, the only real frustration, will ultimately be a failure to engage, a failure to love.