Christmas 2009
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How small our world has become. How simple world travel has become. My wife and I have just returned from 6 weeks in South Africa and India - two of the world’s great but complex nations. We visited Christian communities that our churches support with funds and prayer. Back home, I’m often told that “all religions are basically the same”. But I
was reminded how naïve & patently false such a cliché is. In Darjeeling where
we trekked briefly, many religions vie openly (yet peacefully) for converts.
Hindus proclaimed many many gods. Buddhist denied any god. The Christians
followed Jesus as god since Jesus proclaimed his own divinity, “anyone
who has seen me has seen the Father as well” (John 14:6-8) and proving it by |
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We saw this saving power expressed in our sister community, Melville Union Church, Johannesburg (www.melvilleunionchurch.org). There Africans from
many “tribes” Xhosa, Zulu, British, Afrikaans, Indian, and Sotho form One
People in Christ, a community of real hope and reconciliation in the new post
apartheid South Africa. But you don’t need to travel half way around the world at Christmas to experience this. Why not check out what God is doing in your neighbourhood … try our churches this Christmas … you’ll find people like yourself, but who’ve |
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