Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and author of over 100 books, booklets & Bible studies. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 1,300 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries.
if you’ve ever driven to the circus
you’ll see the elephants standing out on
the parking line right the elephants
will be out on the parking lot these
huge powerful beasts but they don’t go
anywhere they don’t run they don’t move
you know why because they got a chain
around one of their legs a little teeny
chain with a little teeny peg in the
ground that these beats could rip out
any old time they feel like it cuz they
got the power they got the power all
they got to do is jerk that leg and that
little peg would come out of that and
rip that concrete and tear that chain
but they don’t budge you know why
because they were taught ever since they
were a little baby elephant that when
you feel this chain you have no power
from the time they were born when you
feel this chain on your leg that means
you’re nothing you’re nobody and you
don’t move cuz you’re not here to
demonstrate your power you’re here to
perform and we got a lot of Christians
who aren’t here to demonstrate their
power they’re here to perform and so you
come to church on Sunday and you perform
but you don’t have any power you call
you Dragon Church with this chain on
your leg this chain on your leg come up
I’m coming to worship God and I’m coming
and he’s able with this chain on your
leg and he’s so high
/ with this chain on your leg and he
thought why’d you can’t get around and
you got this chain on your leg
performing for the circus and the hell
is laughing at you even it’s cotton
candy with that chain on your leg it’s
time for you to say in the name of Jesus
Christ
let me go get that chain off of me
I’m free and the Sun sets free is free
indeed your train walk like it act like
it are you free are you free
are you free then Jesus make you free
then walk like it talk like it act like
it all your head up high and be free
he’s such a tree it’s such a freak