Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen me.” We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally “have no choice.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.