IS YOUR CHURCH USING LOVE TO ENSLAVE?

“Love that will not betray you, dismay or enslave you,
It will set you free
Be more like the man, you were made to be                                                                                                                                                                                                                         There is a design, an alignment to cry,
At my heart you see, the beauty of love, as it was made to be.”

-      From Sigh No More by Mumford & Sins

Sigh No More is a song that begins with a declaration of serving God as the human vocation, reminds us of the frailty and failings of humanity before concluding with these words which in context can only be seen as God’s love bringing humanity back to ultimate fulfillment. The love of God will not betray you or enslave you. It will give you that freedom that all of humanity is yearning for. If Mumford and Sons are making this declaration to a world seeking Cosmic answers I can’t help but hear a prophetic challenge to the Churches who claim to be about God’s love. Is the love that the Church pumps out a love that will not betray and enslave? Many Churches who have claimed love have enslaved their people in a new legalism and conformity. That is not God’s love. To Test if your Church is living God’s love you can use the Mumford & Sons test – “Love that will not betray you, dismay or enslave you/It will set you free.”