We know now which WORD we are invited, challenged to keep...
it's the new commandment, the chance for suvival: "love one another".
If you keep the word, only then you love me, Jesus - [and God, with whom
Jesus is one].
It means for religious people: we don't love Jesus as we pray, as we bring sacrifices, as we celebrate, as we work... all this is good for us... sure...
but Jesus [God) is loved only as we love one another.
Jesus himself will ascend to heaven, disappear - to make space and time
for the word "love one another"... Jesus is since then loved only indirectly...
After we have understood this message - the great work / task starts now:
to learn to love!
* to love one another is easy.
But because of the circumstances and the human condition love is difficult'
sometimes as impossible.
* We have to see the reality. Today "love one another" is an ART.
* We need an APC (Arts-Performance-Centre) to learn this kind of ART.
Dienstag, 30. April 2013
Sonntag, 28. April 2013
5th Easter-Sunday Joh 13.31-35 A new heart...
The time after the resurrection of Jesus is coming nearer...
The first reading (Acts 14.21...) brings the message: Paulus + Barnabas implant
a new heart in Antiochia into the disciples. Such a spiritual heart-trans- plantation needs a long way and endurance.... maybe years!
In the sec. reading (Apk 21.1-5) is reveald: there is a NEW heaven + a NEW earth
and in the NEW situation God is named "Emmanuel" (living with the people).
You also need to keep in mind: "Jesus and God are seen as one".
Never forget the slogan:"Now I am making the whole creation new".
Und now the gospel: John let (100 years after Jesus has died) Jesus proclaim:
"I shall not be with you any longer"
It means we have to accept: Jesus (and with him God) goes... he dies... he will
not be with us... he disappears... there will be emptiness! The focus of their
lives, the one they have followed is not any more... void! It's like today: a lot of
people feel God is absent... God is not at hand... and worse: Jesus himself
announces as a Eu-angelion, as a joyfull message: I shall not be with you any longer! The absence of God (and Jesus) is a precondition for the New heart,
for the New heaven, the New earth. Into this New situation - emptiness -
void of God and Jesus - he himself gives a New commandment, a New chance
of Life: "love one another". (as Jesus has given an example).
And if you like to recognize the followers of Jesus in 2013 - there is a New sign to
recognize them: "look: how they love one another"! They don't love anymore "God"
oder "Jesus"; there focus is not God or Jesus - they love one another! This is the
real test (Religion is evaporated / secularisation is the wind).
The old heart beats for God / for Jesus (Religion).
But Jesus has gone and with him his God - the heart is empty.
The New heart beats for "one another" (New heaven + New earth).
The secular Christianity knows: we don't have Jesus any more, only his example.
we don't have God any more, only his word. There will be a new heaven and a new earth wherever the chance is taken; "love one another".
The first reading (Acts 14.21...) brings the message: Paulus + Barnabas implant
a new heart in Antiochia into the disciples. Such a spiritual heart-trans- plantation needs a long way and endurance.... maybe years!
In the sec. reading (Apk 21.1-5) is reveald: there is a NEW heaven + a NEW earth
and in the NEW situation God is named "Emmanuel" (living with the people).
You also need to keep in mind: "Jesus and God are seen as one".
Never forget the slogan:"Now I am making the whole creation new".
Und now the gospel: John let (100 years after Jesus has died) Jesus proclaim:
"I shall not be with you any longer"
It means we have to accept: Jesus (and with him God) goes... he dies... he will
not be with us... he disappears... there will be emptiness! The focus of their
lives, the one they have followed is not any more... void! It's like today: a lot of
people feel God is absent... God is not at hand... and worse: Jesus himself
announces as a Eu-angelion, as a joyfull message: I shall not be with you any longer! The absence of God (and Jesus) is a precondition for the New heart,
for the New heaven, the New earth. Into this New situation - emptiness -
void of God and Jesus - he himself gives a New commandment, a New chance
of Life: "love one another". (as Jesus has given an example).
And if you like to recognize the followers of Jesus in 2013 - there is a New sign to
recognize them: "look: how they love one another"! They don't love anymore "God"
oder "Jesus"; there focus is not God or Jesus - they love one another! This is the
real test (Religion is evaporated / secularisation is the wind).
The old heart beats for God / for Jesus (Religion).
But Jesus has gone and with him his God - the heart is empty.
The New heart beats for "one another" (New heaven + New earth).
The secular Christianity knows: we don't have Jesus any more, only his example.
we don't have God any more, only his word. There will be a new heaven and a new earth wherever the chance is taken; "love one another".
Donnerstag, 18. April 2013
Success Joh 10.27-30 (21.04.2013)
What we got by the story of the rich catch (Joh 21.1-14)
here we have it clear (Joh 10.27-30):
A) The one, belonging to me, listen to my voice
(as the Apostles + disciples have done)
B) I know them (I have confidence in them: they will follow me)
C) they follow me really (they do what I told them to do)
D) and I give them eternal life (fullness of Life / rich fish-catch).
What is proclaimed here, that's a divine order (Joh 10.30)
it means: it's valid for the whole creation:
The one who is confident with the Person of Jesus Christ,
it means the one who is inter-acting with him in all his dimensions,
this one will encounter, live "fullness of Life".
A full Christian Life belongs for the moment to the peack of the cultural
evolution. It opens for everyone the possibility to get Life-experiences
at a very high level - inclusive: birth + death, I + We, appearance + being,
nature + culture, man + God.
The Jesus-Movement has brought into this world a new world-view:
Joh 10.10: I have come in order that you might have life -
life in all its fullness.
here we have it clear (Joh 10.27-30):
A) The one, belonging to me, listen to my voice
(as the Apostles + disciples have done)
B) I know them (I have confidence in them: they will follow me)
C) they follow me really (they do what I told them to do)
D) and I give them eternal life (fullness of Life / rich fish-catch).
What is proclaimed here, that's a divine order (Joh 10.30)
it means: it's valid for the whole creation:
The one who is confident with the Person of Jesus Christ,
it means the one who is inter-acting with him in all his dimensions,
this one will encounter, live "fullness of Life".
A full Christian Life belongs for the moment to the peack of the cultural
evolution. It opens for everyone the possibility to get Life-experiences
at a very high level - inclusive: birth + death, I + We, appearance + being,
nature + culture, man + God.
The Jesus-Movement has brought into this world a new world-view:
Joh 10.10: I have come in order that you might have life -
life in all its fullness.
Sonntag, 14. April 2013
Mr. SOMEBODY Joh 21.1-14
What tells us this story from the rich fish-catch ? After the Apostles and the
first disciples have died - the Jesus-Movement is busy to proclaim the
unbelievable resurrection of the Lord Jesus ! to believe we need signs...
In the Gospel: Mr. Somebody gives an effective advice - and the disciples execute it. Great catch! The one, who knows Jesus best starts to suspect: The Spirit of Jesus may be embodied in this Mr. Somebody - it's the risen Lord who acts!
Und the braeckfast-meal after the hard work - the bread as a sign: the bread of Life is given. Mr Somebody realizes in his way the Spirit of Jesus.
[Unification of identities or: two I's doing the same act].
As a fiction: There wa a unsuccessfull school... the pupils out of way...
Mr Somebody gives advice: A) The parents are responsible for the school.
B) The teachers are in service of the education - rendering their best...
(without or with better salaries): knowledgeable... C) The HoD's execute best
administration und motivation... D) The learners are disciplined and eager...
And oh wonder! All work together... they perform the advice...
Today - this school is well know as best ... a profit for all and more... a feast
celebrates the understanding: "we are all in service of...."
As a theory: The Spirit of Jesus Christ is embodied in all of us. He is challenged
into resurrection here and now. The resurrection way means: doing in the given situation what the Spirit of Jesus wants us to do. Resurrection means: put your lives here and now in a new perspective: to bring all of us into a greater participation with the fullness of Life.
first disciples have died - the Jesus-Movement is busy to proclaim the
unbelievable resurrection of the Lord Jesus ! to believe we need signs...
In the Gospel: Mr. Somebody gives an effective advice - and the disciples execute it. Great catch! The one, who knows Jesus best starts to suspect: The Spirit of Jesus may be embodied in this Mr. Somebody - it's the risen Lord who acts!
Und the braeckfast-meal after the hard work - the bread as a sign: the bread of Life is given. Mr Somebody realizes in his way the Spirit of Jesus.
[Unification of identities or: two I's doing the same act].
As a fiction: There wa a unsuccessfull school... the pupils out of way...
Mr Somebody gives advice: A) The parents are responsible for the school.
B) The teachers are in service of the education - rendering their best...
(without or with better salaries): knowledgeable... C) The HoD's execute best
administration und motivation... D) The learners are disciplined and eager...
And oh wonder! All work together... they perform the advice...
Today - this school is well know as best ... a profit for all and more... a feast
celebrates the understanding: "we are all in service of...."
As a theory: The Spirit of Jesus Christ is embodied in all of us. He is challenged
into resurrection here and now. The resurrection way means: doing in the given situation what the Spirit of Jesus wants us to do. Resurrection means: put your lives here and now in a new perspective: to bring all of us into a greater participation with the fullness of Life.
Donnerstag, 4. April 2013
After Easter: THOMAS still senses-drunk
The Ev John (20.10-31) shows a Thomas who has refused to make a decision
(to believe) - because he didn't get any reason, any basic in favour of a resurrection.
For him, the human senses would bear reason (seeing, hearing, touching). Thomas belongs to the kind of people who base their life-style upon the perception by senses. That's good - but today that's not any more enough.
The human perception by senses has developped over many years (millions) but this under the law of the survival of the species. In the meantime the human conciousness has emerged and we need a new basic for the Spiritual Life.
The perception by senses cannot establish the NEW LIFE (like the resurrection-way, or like the Holy Spirit... , like love, or mercy or schalom etc...). The senses-perception takes up a shape, a model of an already existing material-reality. Human senses are creative, sure, but for the NEW LIFE not enough.
And exactly this "only-human-senses-reality" is not basic for the resurrection-way: love is matter-transcendent. Senses and Insight together will build a basic upon the resurrection-way is dared, decided.
Only the human decision brings into existence love, hope, the Kingdom of God etc...
Baptism (start of a NEW LIFE) is based on a personal decision, not upon a perception by senses like beauty, wellbeing etc... Therefore happy and real are people who make a decision and not only a logical conclusion of some perception.
The personal decision is based on a offered challenge, on a view of the future (not the past) or on a personal human relationship. As long as we state that our world-view is based on evidence given by senses, Thomas is unable to make a personal decision - he is short-sighted, his world is "measured" - but the spirit (mens) is unmeasured.
The signs of Jesus (his life-style) are indications of a very NEW human Life-style - emerging out of responsible consciousness not out of senses-evidence.
(to believe) - because he didn't get any reason, any basic in favour of a resurrection.
For him, the human senses would bear reason (seeing, hearing, touching). Thomas belongs to the kind of people who base their life-style upon the perception by senses. That's good - but today that's not any more enough.
The human perception by senses has developped over many years (millions) but this under the law of the survival of the species. In the meantime the human conciousness has emerged and we need a new basic for the Spiritual Life.
The perception by senses cannot establish the NEW LIFE (like the resurrection-way, or like the Holy Spirit... , like love, or mercy or schalom etc...). The senses-perception takes up a shape, a model of an already existing material-reality. Human senses are creative, sure, but for the NEW LIFE not enough.
And exactly this "only-human-senses-reality" is not basic for the resurrection-way: love is matter-transcendent. Senses and Insight together will build a basic upon the resurrection-way is dared, decided.
Only the human decision brings into existence love, hope, the Kingdom of God etc...
Baptism (start of a NEW LIFE) is based on a personal decision, not upon a perception by senses like beauty, wellbeing etc... Therefore happy and real are people who make a decision and not only a logical conclusion of some perception.
The personal decision is based on a offered challenge, on a view of the future (not the past) or on a personal human relationship. As long as we state that our world-view is based on evidence given by senses, Thomas is unable to make a personal decision - he is short-sighted, his world is "measured" - but the spirit (mens) is unmeasured.
The signs of Jesus (his life-style) are indications of a very NEW human Life-style - emerging out of responsible consciousness not out of senses-evidence.
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