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====== Truly International ... ====== | ====== Truly International ... ====== | ||
- | Friday, Feb 1, 2019. | + | Friday, Feb 1, 2019. Two weeks ago I attended a Christian service in a very young and |
+ | dynamic church in Kobe, Japan. I arrived a day before for a conference, which took place | ||
+ | there at the local supercomputing center. So I looked in the internet and found a worship | ||
+ | service for Sunday 10am, and I dropped in there to join the congregation. There were | ||
+ | many young people, students and people with small kids - in a very exciting atmosphere. | ||
+ | It was 20 minutes of worship and dance, then some dedication of two kids, sermon, prayer, | ||
+ | vision day for 2019 and much more. | ||
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** Community without Limits ... ** | ** Community without Limits ... ** | ||
+ | When it comes to Christian community, it is a community without the limits and boundaries | ||
+ | of nation or origin. In Jesus Christ, we are one people. We are his, and our origin or | ||
+ | language or the way we have been shaped before is no longer important. What is important is | ||
+ | that HE shapes us now! | ||
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+ | In Colossians 3, Paul writes about this words which had their echos throughout the centuries: | ||
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- | Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, | + | Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, |
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+ | As a Christian, you can come to other Christians in many countries, and you find astonishing | ||
+ | community right away. I had this experience many times in the past, with people from the | ||
+ | UK, from France, from Japan, from Germany, from Korea, from Pakistan, from the USA ... | ||
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- | ** ...** | + | ** Through Christ |
+ | Christ can do astonishing things. There is a spirit in Christian community which is showing | ||
+ | a deep band between Christians from very different background. A week ago in Kobe, I had | ||
+ | nice chats with different people, one of them was the pastor of the church, originally from | ||
+ | Australia, now in Japan. The whole worship service was in Japanese and English, with people | ||
+ | from different countries of Asia attending the service. | ||
+ | To have community with many nations is a deep experience. In science, of course, we have | ||
+ | this experience all the time. We meet colleagues from dozens of countries, work with them, | ||
+ | discuss and exchange ideas. That is great as well! But I still think that Christian | ||
+ | community is shaped one layer deeper. | ||
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+ | The holy spirit is there, and it is not just an idea | ||
+ | that the spirit of Jesus lives in us, who believe. He is reality. And we are all one through | ||
+ | this spirit, all who are believers and disciples of Christ. We are all one through him, | ||
+ | with all our differences, | ||
+ | valuable assets. In him, our personal history becomes our special contribution to the | ||
+ | community. There is so much to be gained, and the experiences with churches around the globe | ||
+ | give us a tiny vision about what heaven might look like, when all who believe in him are | ||
+ | united in a great feast. | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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