Staying Free From “Fixers”

The problem with religion is that it becomes the excuse for critical treatment of everyone else. If religion measures the way people act and what they say, then those of us who speak and act properly can correct those who don’t. It’s true of religion and it’s true of our secular religious society: There are people who are perennial fixers of other people’s lives. For them, religion is quite convenient. But Galatians 5 tells us that we are free—free from religious fixers, whether they be in the church or in the culture at large. This key text says it all: It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery, (Galatians 5:1).