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Break the walls of ignorance!

From the Slavery of Sin to True Freedom

10/3/2025

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More than ten years ago, I left my country and arrived in Latin America. The feeling was similar to what many East Germans experienced when Germany was reunified: after a lifetime of orders, rules, and restrictions, they suddenly faced a sea of personal decisions and responsibilities.
In East Germany, the communist government decided everything—from where you lived to the job you held. After unification, freedom brought with it a wave of disorientation. In my devotional reading today, I came across the story of a man from the East who, shortly after unification, went to buy a car. The salesman asked him which model he wanted, what additional features he desired, and how he planned to pay. Everything was unfamiliar to him—names, models, loans, payments. Overwhelmed, he finally said: “Just give me any car.” At first, freedom felt like a burden. Today, however, he delights in being able to choose.
Last night, I had a vivid dream: I was renting an Airbnb in Berlin, right in the central square—a loft with a glass entrance. Everything I did was visible to passersby. It felt like living in a showcase. And I realized: that is exactly how I feel after sending our film project The Missing Face (El Rostro que Faltaba) to the Berlinale Co-Production Market. It is as if my entire life—my identity, my struggles, and my faith—were laid bare before Berlin.
I am Turkish, I follow Christ, and I have learned to speak about things that in my homeland would be considered taboo. I speak about the freedom Jesus brings, about the identity discovered in following Him—even when it is hidden, complicated, or difficult to embrace. And it is not only about me: recently I met two European friends who carry very similar struggles. A young Norwegian woman of Sámi descent, from an indigenous people almost forgotten by history. And an Austrian man whose grandfather was a Bosnian imam. Both of them also carry stories of hidden and complex identities.
When we were slaves to sin, we obeyed its orders—whether we wanted to or not. Today, as children of God, we live under grace: we do not follow sin by obligation, but follow God by choice, in true freedom.
The gospel is that transforming power: it draws anyone—Turkish, Norwegian, Austrian, Latin American—out of slavery and into grace. I experienced it in Istanbul, twenty years ago, when I encountered Christ in the midst of writing a script about true love. That script took me two decades to finish, because it turned out not to be just a story, but the beginning of a trilogy about identity, redemption, and freedom. The first film is called: The Missing Face.
Freedom sometimes frightens us because it forces us to choose. But when the choice is to follow Christ, we discover that we no longer live under the accusing gaze of the world, but under the grace of God—who covers us and gives us purpose.

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    Bozkurt Palanduz: As I realised that I am not going to be able to really connect with the Wholeness which was more than just the little “I” in me, if I won’t leave the imprisonment of the self and continue being just a result of the negativity, I decided to leave my home some time ago and went on a journey through continents and oceans to witness the Creation as it was meant to be the image of an imageless God! 
    In the new continent that I am living now, South America and Mexico I am almost without an image here of who I was before and am now able both to look into my past and even before the ancient times - it’s no longer limited to what I perceived of my personal history - back to the initial reason and thought of the Creator ´way beyond my comprehension and beyond the future ahead what we call “new”. 
    To me what’s new is what is already existing in the universe that I didn’t know, but that which comes to me with my discovery of something. This blog is about these discoveries that I make which makes me question what is actually new! 
    At this point of fulfilment I am receiving all the novelties of the future with an objective look at the collective productions of the humanity no matter where they come from, as long as we meet the future while living with all the marks of the Ancient which is the zone of these collective productions of the human. And in reality, I produce them the more I can make sense of the connectedness of things and can meet the infinity through the fulfilment of the self in full beyond the limits of time and space.

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Hace más de diez años salí de mi país y llegué a Latinoamérica. La sensación fue similar a lo que vivieron muchos alemanes orientales cuando se unificó Alemania: de repente, una vida entera acostumbrada a órdenes, reglas y limitaciones se enfrentaba a un mar de decisiones y responsabilidades propias.
En Alemania Oriental, el gobierno comunista decidía desde la residencia hasta el trabajo de cada ciudadano. Tras la unificación, la libertad trajo consigo un desconcierto enorme. Recuerdo haber leído en mi devocional de hoy la historia de un hombre del Este que, después de la unificación, fue a comprar un coche. El vendedor le preguntó qué modelo quería, qué funciones adicionales deseaba y cómo pensaba pagarlo. Todo era nuevo para él: nombres, modelos, préstamos, pagos. Abrumado, terminó diciendo: “Deme cualquiera.” La libertad, al principio, le resultaba una carga. Hoy, en cambio, disfruta de poder elegir.
Anoche tuve un sueño muy claro: rentaba un Airbnb en Berlín, en plena plaza, un loft con la entrada completamente de vidrio. Todo lo que hacía quedaba a la vista de los transeúntes. Era como vivir dentro de una vitrina. Y me di cuenta: así mismo me siento tras enviar nuestro proyecto cinematográfico El Rostro que Faltaba al Berlinale Co-Production Market. Es como si toda mi vida quedara expuesta ante Berlín, con mi identidad, mis luchas y mi fe.
Soy turco, sigo a Cristo, y he aprendido a hablar de temas que en mi país natal serían considerados tabú. Hablo de la libertad que trae Jesús, de la identidad que se descubre al seguirlo, incluso cuando es oculta, complicada o difícil de asumir. No se trata sólo de mí: recientemente conocí a dos amigos europeos que enfrentan luchas muy parecidas. Una joven noruega de raíces sami, un pueblo indígena casi olvidado. Y un austríaco cuyo abuelo fue imán bosnio. Ambos también cargan historias de identidades ocultas y complejas.
Cuando éramos esclavos del pecado, obedecíamos sus órdenes, nos gustara o no. Hoy, al ser hijos de Dios, vivimos bajo la gracia: no seguimos al pecado por obligación, sino que seguimos a Dios por elección, en verdadera libertad.
El evangelio es ese poder transformador: saca a cualquiera —turco, noruego, austríaco, latinoamericano— de la esclavitud a la gracia. Yo lo viví en Estambul, hace veinte años, cuando conocí a Cristo en medio de la escritura de un guion sobre el verdadero amor. Ese guion tardé dos décadas en terminarlo, porque resultó no ser sólo una historia, sino el inicio de una trilogía sobre identidad, redención y libertad. La primera película se llama: “El Rostro que Faltaba.”
La libertad a veces nos asusta porque nos exige elegir. Pero cuando la elección es seguir a Cristo, encontramos que ya no vivimos bajo la mirada acusadora del mundo, sino bajo la gracia de Dios, que nos cubre y nos da propósito.
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