What do Christians mean when they claim that Jesus 'makes us free'?
	· freedom from the constraints of the Law (Galatians 4:21-31)      · freedom from sin and its consequences 'now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God… the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.'(Romans 6:22-23) Such theological ideas can be a bit bewildering! John Bunyan envisaged this slavery to sin much more concretely when he wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, in which he describes Christian, a man who becomes aware of his own unworthiness and starts to search for God. Christian carries his heavy burden of guilt on his journey towards salvation and, after many adventurous encounters and struggles, is redeemed. The burden falls from his shoulders. William Blake's engraving gives a powerful sense of Christian being weighed down by his burden. Show the pupils this picture and get them to create their own version, only this time they could list all that they feel 'burdens' them: bullying, things they have done to hurt others, too much homework… What would need to happen for this burden to be relieved? The Blake engraving is sourced from:       http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/bunsmart/bunyan/
	The same activity could be repeated for people: people the pupils know, people in the local community, people in other parts of the world etc.