Hungarian Church Press, 1958 (10. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)
1958-01-15 / 1-2. szám
HCHP I«15,-11,1,1958, Vol.X/l-2- 11 11 This very day has to be a ohurch’g event. 7/e have to learn something of the church’s today’3 lift in the Way'tKat it"may turn out - in our hope - a help for us to the church’s further way in tíje events ahead of us. I have not come here, after all, to give a simple reply but for serving, in order to make share With you alT which Goa was ripening in nie amidstthe unusual events of the elapsed twelve months and try to lend both you and us a helping hand to the way ahead. V/hat has happened in our church by and large sinoe the Liberation till the autumn of 1956 ? It is a fact that God has not left His oongregation alone, without any revelation. He has given the unusual way, unfamiliar Word, While the whole population emerging from the horrors of war and liberated for reorganizing its own circumstances of life, faced the chanoe to build up a new life and country through the conditions of human living side by side, in the mean time on this unfamiliar way the church has not been .left alone and without any revelation, for the preaching which prepared the church before the Liberation to the his torical changes during the tragical operetta life of the Horthy-cra was asserting itself among a lot of stammerings and became mare and more a real leader to the congregations. Jesus Christ’s redeeming gospel, .his saving work creating "-new heavens and a new earth became our daily guide in the sense -yvhom it did not become so, The church giving aocamt examining her ocnsoienoe, and putting her decision under a new examination does not align herself with ’man’s judgmavfc’* ill what had happened in the church during the counter-revolution in Hungary would not be .justified even in the case &'e pC^^er-revolutlon had become victorious/*' Síi what in the Reformed cburoh in Hayfcry'-''not'* only In preaoKérs €a£en indivaduallGr^ut even more in' the faith of the owp^egatioias had corrmcnood and ripened" on the basisTof our' contact! service ümt would be valid even*wheh t'he' countor-revolution had won« As in the^westoxn hemisphere," not those' church leaders* word -j. valid for the destiny of the church who want to tie the church’s life to the affair of the reaction but that of those who feel somehow - even from the ’Vest - that all what happened in the Protestant Churohes in China, in 'die Protestant Churches in Czechoslovakia, in the Protestant Churches in Hungary, is some sort of God5e living Word for the church’s renewal and preparing the church for servioe what is a help to the church living all over the world« In that nightmarish, feverish condition when under hardly bearable pressicn of the events a great mariy p.eople were speaking inconsistently, I know . there were uttered premature sentences about the entire way of the church we were going on till October tKo 23rd 19'5'éV' To understand! well what happened to us and what do we have got to do navi?', we' need not go by man’s judgment but place us under God’s Word to the degree as if we were looking at things in that closeness, sitting in judgment and recovering, in which we will be in the moment of seeing face to face. All what I make mention of, I bring up of such a self-scrutihyi Por when ÍKT church weighs up of herself then through the members’ self-examination mokes a self-scrutiny. \'le do not examine others but in first place ourselves and through ourselves each other, the whole way on which we were kept carried by God, X am posing some questions and try to answer them the most intelligibly.
