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Room: The World Is Too Big (John 8:36)

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Jack has spent his entire five years in a single room, captive with his mother. Room is his whole world—he believes the rest of existence is outer space. When they finally escape, freedom is terrifying. The sky is too vast, faces too many, noise too loud. Jack asks to return to Room. Jesus promises: If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. But Room shows that freedom is not instantly comfortable. Jack must learn to live in a world he never knew existed. His mother, who remembered the bigger world, assumed freedom would be healing. It was—but it was also overwhelming. Liberation is the beginning of transformation, not its completion.

Topics & Themes

captivityfreedomtraumahealingfamilyadjustment

Scripture References

John 8:36Galatians 5:1Isaiah 42:7

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