Released Into the Public Domain

In April 1993, CERN made a decision that changed the world. Tim Berners-Lee had invented the World Wide Web — a system for linking documents across the internet — and CERN held the rights. They could have patented it, charged licensing fees, controlled who could build on it. Instead, they released it into the public domain. Free. No strings attached.

That single act of release unleashed a wave of creativity no one could have predicted. Within a decade, the open web had transformed communication, commerce, education, and medicine. Freedom didn't diminish the technology's value — it multiplied it beyond imagination.

Paul writes in Galatians 5:1, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." The freedom Christ offers works the same way. It isn't freedom with terms and conditions, a restricted license you have to renew each year. It is grace released into the public domain of your life — free to run, free to share, free to build upon.

And here is what's remarkable: just as the open web created an abundance that a locked-down system never could have, the freedom of the Gospel produces a kind of life that legalism never will. Joy. Generosity. Love that multiplies the more it is given away.

The world's most transformative technology was set free. How much more the truth that set your soul free?