In Western culture, we like to see ourselves as rugged individuals forging our own way through life. We desperately grasp for complete freedom and self-determination, not realizing that we do so at the expense of our own humanity. Jesus came to show us the way to be truly human, but this wasn't a life free from submission. That is impossible for us. We all submit to and are enslaved by something. Jesus, however, paradoxically promised true freedom through submission. He promises us liberation by constraining us in love. - Joshua D. Chatraw, Telling a Better Story