Just as God is free in his grace, the church too is free in its commission. The thesis basically says that the freedom of the church is “grounded” in its commission. If, instead of serving him, it put the Word and work of the Lord “in the service of any arbitrarily chosen desires, purposes, and plans,” then it is only apparently free. In fact, it loses its freedom in the process. It will exhaust itself with its efforts to satisfy people’s needs as they are manipulated by the media. It will, for its part, become slave and prisoner of old and new forms of human arbitrariness. The freedom of the
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