"Permission to travel. Permission to meet. Permission to eat."
If you have ever lived under rules that changed every week, you know how a dystopia feels. What most people never learned is that the playbook was written down long ago, in novels our schools once required and now quietly remove.
Pastor Steve Cioccolanti, teaching from Melbourne during its harsh Covid lockdowns, turns English Lit teacher for a day. Using Lois Lowry's The Giver, one of the most banned books in American schools, he lays out 13 rules every dictatorship follows and holds them up against Scripture, from Babel to the empty tomb.
You'll discover:
Why utopia without the Messiah always ends the same way
The 13 rules, and which ones you have already lived through
Why "precision of language" matters so much to those in power
The 14th commonality in every dystopian story, and why it is good news
"The problem is when people try to create utopia without the Messiah, you get dystopia."
This is not for you if you want a comfortable sermon. Watch now and learn to read your world with open eyes.
