Divine MERCY Sunday

On Easter we celebrated that God has called Jesus into Life. This call starts on
the moment of conception, goes through every death and is valid for ever and ever.
It's the same with us. What ever happend - the call into Life is valid for ever.
The Sunday after Easter sings praise to the MERCY of God - maybe some people see the call into Life as MERCY.
It seems: once God has shown MERCY a) to the Christian Community (Act 4.32..)
b) to Thomas  (John 20.19-31). But today...  Where is the MERCY of God shown ?
Which Christian Community in Namibia gets famous because she has shown God's MERCY in 2015 ???

Act 4.32 - 35 shows exactly how the MERCY of God is shown in Namibia in 2015:
+ the whole group of believers (of all Churches) in Jesus is united (heart + soul)
+ everything they owned is held in common (all Churches are together one owner!)
+ the testifying to the resurrection is great (resurrection not now but late r)
+ none of the members of a Christian Church is in want
+ those who own land or houses ( of frams) sell them
+ they bring the whole money to the Bishops
+ and this moeny is distributed to any members in need (since 1996 until today...)
WHAT A DREAM for 2015 !!!

HOW is it today  April 2015 ???  cf. John 20.19-31
The disciples all over were in the Churches (the doors closed for others)...
It was HOLY WEEK 2015 - Jesus comes in - gives peace - shows his wounds - and send them - giving them the Holy Spirit too...
Is there somewhere Mr. Thomas, who refuses to believe ??? Are there signs Jesus worked... and the believers saw them...  in April 2015  ???
Thomas of 2015 has to discover the holes that the nails made in the hands of the Body of Christ of 2015. Who has the courage to put the finger into the holes of the Body of Christ of today ??? Who told Thomas of 2015 "!put your finger here", "give me your hand - put it into my side" ???
Do we have an eye, a sympathy for the Body of Christ of today ???
(to see what's going on is a pre-condition for showing mercy)

The HOLY WEEK 2015

It's good for us to decide to celebrate Jesus - it means: his life and his way !
We know: As baptized persons we celebrate in Jesus our own way and life.
It's our redemption-way, our resurrection-way.  HE + WE = ONE

On PALM-SUNDAY Jesus has decided to show in public "WHO is in future the MASTER" the LORD, the NEW King. It's a clear provocation of the existing
MASTER (the Government) - and the consequence: death.
This Sunday may serve as a warning to all Christian Churches.
Is there no other way ????

On HOLY THURSDAY we see Jesus giving us an example - feet-washing -
declaring clearly: Who is the MASTER is doing SERVICE.
This is to show "perfect love" !!!
Sure, this new strategy is for us very difficult: to change from MASTER to a SERVER.   SERVICING not MASTERING !
This is the Slogan in future for our CHURCHES, for our FAMILIES, for our GROUPS,
somehow for our GOVERNMENTS, for our BUSINESS...

On HOLY FRIDAY we see Jesus dying. The NEW King is not acccepted.
His way is the CROSS-WAY. The KING-way / entrance in Jerusalem is over.

On HOLY SATURDAY - we are lost. Our HOPE has died. His strategy at the end
has been a human failure. The KING-way is over.

On HOLY SUNDAY - we got first a rumour: HE is alive ! And with time:
we change this rumour into a reality. We have decided Jesus (HIS LIFE + HIS WAY) is a reality for us - his WAY will become OUR WAY, his LIFE will become OUR LIFE.
We accept HIM (his way + his life) as "BREAD + WINE for US"; for our life-style.

As a Community, realizing Jesu life-style in our modern time, accepting persons are for each other "Bread + Wine"; doing SERVICE as the redemption-way...
in this kind we show the world: we are on the resurrection-way.