Rights
The Idea of even having “rights” is a fabrication of ideas based on ownership and selfishness. In Christ we are neither slave, free, man, woman. this is bigger than rights! it involves realizing that you are actually a spiritual being that is free of these silly constraints and learning to exist in whatever state you find yourself in. Our faith becomes our reality, our hope becomes our future and our love becomes our identity. None of these things are anchored to the temporal world we live in. Ultimately we who are in the image of GOD become even more like GOD by embracing his very nature.
Giving up your rights is most definitely an exercise in semantics. Only when we free ourselves from the silly logical constructs of “perceived reality” we realize that rights can’t be given or taken truly! we always have choice, granted the choices that we perceive may change but regardless of anyone’s perception of “rights” everyone still maintains the ability to choose. To push this concept even further faith even allows us to make choices that are impossible based on “perception”
Once I gave up my right to be a pastor God began to open the door for me to being one.