Do you think many Americans today agree with this claim of John Locke?

“every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his.”

This belief in “self-ownership” is hard for us to shake. And yet we who claim to follow Jesus are confronted by biblical teaching that we who are baptized belong to God and to each other, since we are baptized into the Body of Christ together. Do you feel the tension between our modern Lockean assumptions and our claimed biblical convictions?