No Exceptions Ministries, Inc

Oppression comes in many forms but all can be divided into three main categories: 👉 Direct 👉 Indirect 👉 Self-Imposed Direct is that textbook servitude wherein another person strips you of your basic human right to agency and self-directed choice.  Think slavery, wrongful imprisonment, and rape. Indirect is more subtle, but no less an assault on agency, in that it gives the appearance of freedom but in actuality produces subjugation.  The chains are not literal, but institutional, metaphoric, or nuanced.  Think Jim Crow, manipulation, and psychological abuse.   And then there is the oft-forgotten self-imposed variety.  This is the oppression which, ultimately, you impose on yourself.  Self-doubt, inferiority complex, limiting thinking; all are its diseased fruit.   So why do I bring this up?  Because most of what the church has taught is exclusively centered on confronting direct slavery with only a cursory acknowledgement of the indirect.  The self-imposed is ignored entirely.  Wors