As we try to perform a Christian Life, some of us will get the experience of Jeremiah 20.7-9: the heart is full of fire in favour of God but looking into the situation: there is violence and ruin (death). Speaking of God the answer is insult and derision. The experience is: I'm lost with my God, but I cannot let him go.
That's a gracious start.
Paulus (Rom 12.1-2) gives encouragement: think deeper and know your bodily life, your life-style is the real engagement to change the world, the situation. Your new mind (faith in God) is salvation lived as a real Christian Community.
And Jesus (Mt 16.21-27) explains: Yes, there is great sufferings - there is death, again and again; death every day. But in this death-situation you are challenged to rise up into new Life: resurrection.
The most believers understand the resurrection as follows: there is birth + life +
death + resurrection (like the final point of a long way). It looks like a linear mono-dimension. They see time only as a running stream and they try to swimm until the end (of their time). But that is not the whole reality - only it seems like. In Reality we have all the time "the present". We live in the presence. Only as we look back, we discover (and construct) "the past". As we look ahead, we discover (and construct) "the future". But the past as well as the future are different dimensions of the present. All happen in the present.
Likewise "death + resurrection" are facts in the present. And Jesus likes to pro-
claim: where is death there is also resurrection; every day ! We as humans, we are
not only nature, we are much more: Children of God; challenged into the fulness of Life. Living in the present there is the chance to die and to rise up. This higher human dimension is our vocation: to transzend the nature. The naturalism tells us: there is only one dimension: nature. But this is not the whole reality. In Reality there is nature + universe + spirit (God).
This is way Jesus told Peter "what you think is not God's way but man's." The human being may discover there is much more than only man's view. There is Grace and Life in abundance.
Therefore a follower of Jesus Christ renounces the man's view, the mono-dimension of life and discovers with Jesus Christ a new dimension of Life: the chances of the present. The reward will be Life in abundance (according to his/her behaviour / decision / life-style).
Mittwoch, 27. August 2014
Montag, 11. August 2014
The CHURCH seen as HOLY MARY
1) Today as we celebrate Mary the Mother of Jesus, I play the Angel Gabriel
and I greet you as a Christian Community (as I do it every Sunday three times):
"REJOICE ! THE LORD BE WITH YOU !
And you - like MARY - you as a Community, you start to think about this greeting.
What could this greeting mean to me, to our Community ? Such a meditation you
may exercise every day. Every morning you may ask yourself: What is meant by this
mysterious message: The Lord-God is with you / me (not so much as an individual person but much more with us as a Community)
After such personal and communal research
2) The Angel Gabriel will help you to find a meaning, a special one:
"YOU HAVE WON GOD's FAVOUR"
This is the finding, MARY has discovered and get the conviction: Yes, God's favour is
with me, with us as a Community. That's not a message to be afraid, the contrary:
God's favour is GRACE, JOY, LIFE... Until now you may become curious: HOW looks
God's favour for me, for us as a Community ?
3) The Angel Gabriel explains: "YOU ARE TO CONCEIVE JESUS"
And MARY and hopefully WE have the courage to ask: HOW ? HOW I myself and the
Community will conceive Jesus ? The one who has died 2000 years ago. HOW can this happen ? We have to think about very hard!
4) The Angel Gabriel again explains:
THE SPIRIT of GOD WILL OVERSHADOW YOU.
Every Sunday we receive Jesus as the Word of God, as the Bread of Life. We open
our ears and hands (brain and heart) to conceive Jesus Christ.
5) MARY, convinced "nothing is impossibel to God" is able to answer:
FIAT: LED WHAT YOU HAVE SAID DONE TO ME.
That's the point: we have to answer! We have to decide! No way without a personal decision. Do you like to bring Jesus into the world ? really ?
Wherever you go - like you visit Elizabeth - they will discover: you are pregnant:
you bring Jesus into the world (or even not!) - and they will confirm: Yes - so doing -
you are really blessed .
And you - confirmed by others - you will start - following your experiences - to sing
the praise-song: "MAGNIFICAT ANIMA MEA DOMINUM" (my Spirit exults in God).
and I greet you as a Christian Community (as I do it every Sunday three times):
"REJOICE ! THE LORD BE WITH YOU !
And you - like MARY - you as a Community, you start to think about this greeting.
What could this greeting mean to me, to our Community ? Such a meditation you
may exercise every day. Every morning you may ask yourself: What is meant by this
mysterious message: The Lord-God is with you / me (not so much as an individual person but much more with us as a Community)
After such personal and communal research
2) The Angel Gabriel will help you to find a meaning, a special one:
"YOU HAVE WON GOD's FAVOUR"
This is the finding, MARY has discovered and get the conviction: Yes, God's favour is
with me, with us as a Community. That's not a message to be afraid, the contrary:
God's favour is GRACE, JOY, LIFE... Until now you may become curious: HOW looks
God's favour for me, for us as a Community ?
3) The Angel Gabriel explains: "YOU ARE TO CONCEIVE JESUS"
And MARY and hopefully WE have the courage to ask: HOW ? HOW I myself and the
Community will conceive Jesus ? The one who has died 2000 years ago. HOW can this happen ? We have to think about very hard!
4) The Angel Gabriel again explains:
THE SPIRIT of GOD WILL OVERSHADOW YOU.
Every Sunday we receive Jesus as the Word of God, as the Bread of Life. We open
our ears and hands (brain and heart) to conceive Jesus Christ.
5) MARY, convinced "nothing is impossibel to God" is able to answer:
FIAT: LED WHAT YOU HAVE SAID DONE TO ME.
That's the point: we have to answer! We have to decide! No way without a personal decision. Do you like to bring Jesus into the world ? really ?
Wherever you go - like you visit Elizabeth - they will discover: you are pregnant:
you bring Jesus into the world (or even not!) - and they will confirm: Yes - so doing -
you are really blessed .
And you - confirmed by others - you will start - following your experiences - to sing
the praise-song: "MAGNIFICAT ANIMA MEA DOMINUM" (my Spirit exults in God).
Samstag, 2. August 2014
Food for the crowd Mt 14.13-21
WHO may nourish the crowd ? There are different views:
The disciples say: "they can go to the villages to buy themselves some food."
Jesus says: "give them to eat yourselves". What is the right strategy ?
Jesus takes the initiative and demonstrate a clear example:
The Church has to feed the crowd.
Mt is convinced: "the emerging Church" (the Jesus-Movement) has a own
"spiritual food" for the listening crowd (Eucharist: WORD + BRAED).
In 2014 the RCC is busy to prepare a own "spiritual food" in regard of family-life.
It's high time to develop a new view of "what family-life is all about". And foremost:
What is the contribution of the Church to the development of this "institution"
named "family" ? Once there was a slogan: "family = home church".
Today this slogan is inadequate and buried. Everybody knows: it's outdated.
The Church is not founded on the blood-line... Jesus had a total other view.
But there is not yet a newly elaborated family-view for our time. We hope the Synode will do it.
There are many other realities on our spiritual life in urgent need of own food.
We need a very new "idea of God". The old proposal: to see God as a Father,
as a Creator, as a Judge etc... such pictures are more and more discoverd as
"outdated", inadequate in the modern new orld-view.
The Holy Spirit is composing the universal cosmos-concert
God plays it an the Harp.
(The Humanity, Jesus etc... everyone is the one Harp, the instument,
to bringt the composition into the air).
The ecumenism, the way to realize the unity of the Christian Churches is also in dire need of new own food. In 2017 we celebrate the "REFORMATION" (Luther).
But still we see the different Churches as a disgrace, not as a flower-bouquet.
And what about the "PRIESTHOOD" ??? no solution; no new own food!
What about the "LITURGY" ??? not to understand any more !
And "the begging prayer culture" God has to do the work, not we!
The disciples say: "they can go to the villages to buy themselves some food."
Jesus says: "give them to eat yourselves". What is the right strategy ?
Jesus takes the initiative and demonstrate a clear example:
The Church has to feed the crowd.
Mt is convinced: "the emerging Church" (the Jesus-Movement) has a own
"spiritual food" for the listening crowd (Eucharist: WORD + BRAED).
In 2014 the RCC is busy to prepare a own "spiritual food" in regard of family-life.
It's high time to develop a new view of "what family-life is all about". And foremost:
What is the contribution of the Church to the development of this "institution"
named "family" ? Once there was a slogan: "family = home church".
Today this slogan is inadequate and buried. Everybody knows: it's outdated.
The Church is not founded on the blood-line... Jesus had a total other view.
But there is not yet a newly elaborated family-view for our time. We hope the Synode will do it.
There are many other realities on our spiritual life in urgent need of own food.
We need a very new "idea of God". The old proposal: to see God as a Father,
as a Creator, as a Judge etc... such pictures are more and more discoverd as
"outdated", inadequate in the modern new orld-view.
The Holy Spirit is composing the universal cosmos-concert
God plays it an the Harp.
(The Humanity, Jesus etc... everyone is the one Harp, the instument,
to bringt the composition into the air).
The ecumenism, the way to realize the unity of the Christian Churches is also in dire need of new own food. In 2017 we celebrate the "REFORMATION" (Luther).
But still we see the different Churches as a disgrace, not as a flower-bouquet.
And what about the "PRIESTHOOD" ??? no solution; no new own food!
What about the "LITURGY" ??? not to understand any more !
And "the begging prayer culture" God has to do the work, not we!
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