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Truly International ...

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.

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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!

In Colossians 3, Paul writes about this words which had their echos throughout the centuries:

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. (Col 3, 11)

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 Pakistan, from the USA …

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Through Christ …

(Roland Potthast) ... further texts

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