Stevenson opened with humble thanks to his daughter Rachael, Director of the January Series June Hamersma and the attending audience, and then introduced Christian freedom as a source of gratitude, a gift void of feelings of resentment or belittlement, that reaches beyond the inalienable rights of our constitution. According to Stevenson, Christian freedom encompasses more than just the freedom to make decisions for oneself. The freedom of self direction ultimately means no more than a license to self-denigration. Such freedom makes it difficult to feel any source of gratitude. Instead, Christian freedom is about deliverance, release and liberty.
Every person is an addict to the world, subjugated to peer pressure.
Each person also masks this addiction as a condition of sin. Not freedom of self-authorization but freedom of absolution. I am truly free only when I recognize that I do not belong to myself but to someone else. I am free when I recognize that I belong to Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. On the contrary, Stevenson said that the liberation involved in Christian freedom is liberation from one's self.