The Most Empowering Thing Jesus Ever Said

And Why It Changes How We Read Everything

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“Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

For many, that line from Matthew 18 comes with baggage, heavy, often negative baggage. It can sound authoritarian, final and like a threat.

I want to make a case and claim that it’s actually one of the mo…