How important do you think it is for Christiandom to be educated about the World? How would understanding the way other cultures experience the world would shape our theology and understanding of what Jesus talks about? Would this make our communities more or less relevant? How important is it that we stay informed about things beyond our own towns and churches and communities? How do we become the Global Church? How are things like genocide in Africa, the war in Iraq, global warming, and empty cathedrals in England directly realated to the way we view the world? How do we avoid a regionalistic or nationalistic faith?
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One question that itches at my soul is why this(nationalistic church) isn't absolved when one dies to self...the very essence of our transformation. It's pride, plain and simple. If you reduce the struggle of good and evil, God and Satan, life and death down to the simplest principle of truth it become the struggle between pride and humility. Theology aside, what do WE, in our own personal spheres, do about this?
my goodness, what questions!
we do the best we can, i suppose.
to change the world, it begins with us being faithful with what God has made us responsible for.
when God blesses us with more, we can help more.
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No. Certainly dying to one's self is reducing pride. Dying to one's self is humility.
chris
gershom.wordpress.com
I think it is not only our responsibility as humans, but as Christians to do our best to love our neighbor on the other side of the world, who may suffer for our benefit.
I think it all begins with personal responsibility, as does most things. If we make it important to ourselves then it will dissiminate throughout the people we are involved with, in other words the domino affect.
agreed.
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