building a community of grace
When we envisaged the Fragrance in Freiburg project early this year our primary focus was to transform ourselves as a community to be more outward looking and understanding the pathos and agony of the marginalized communities around us. The significant elements of fragrance we focused were the facts that fragrance is inviting, and fragrance is... Continue Reading →
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; God’s greatness is unsearchable.One generation shall laud your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. Psalm 145:3,4 One of the most beautiful aspects of being an intercultural and multi-national church is its inter-generational nature. When one generation lauds the mighty works of the Lord to another it... Continue Reading →
My Chaplain letter to the congregation in Freiburg this time is a series of questions I ask myself and wart all of us to seriously ask ourselves. Here are those questions: How Long? How long can we continue living the way we are leaving today? How long can we continue to have wars? How long... Continue Reading →
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel! Matthew 23:24 The Gnat is the smallest of the unclean species mentioned in the law and the camel is the largest (Lev 11:4). Jesus is making it clear here that while being careful about the minute details of the law and the requirements... Continue Reading →
The ripples of the International and Ecumenical Conference on Racial Justice that was hosted in Freiburg last November is still reverberating across the diocese and beyond and there has been a persistent call for a follow up conference to look further into specific recommendations from the event. Of the many meaningful proposals in the Freiburg... Continue Reading →
For the church to be constantly relevant and relating to the people we should on the one hand be thankful to God for each person whose contributions in different ways makes the church such an exciting place as it is today and on the other hand we should always be humble to see what our... Continue Reading →
On Being the Church Today Meaningful and relevant ways of being the church today is being discussed globally and one of the keys is to ensure that the fragrance of Christ is evident in the places you are in. The basic elements of being a church includes the worship, the fellowship, the witness, the seeking... Continue Reading →
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands. Psalms 143:5 As the Psalmist traverses a difficult phase in life one of the various ways solace is found is to look back and realise how wonderful the Lord has been in life through... Continue Reading →
After the exciting period of Lent and Easter we are now preparing for the Ascension and Pentecost celebrations. The reflections on the passion of Christ were ever more pertinent this time too because several people across the world could identify themselves with the passion narrative. People who are victims of authoritarian regimes, of religious fundamentalism,... Continue Reading →
We are the fragrance of Christ 2 Corinthians 2:15 People are made right with God by faith and by what they do because of their faith…. Faith that does no good is not a live faith.James 2:24,26. “A community of grace, welcoming, inviting, inclusive and caring, committed to ‘building each other up, binding each other’s... Continue Reading →
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