Magyar Egyház, 1985 (64. évfolyam, 1-5. szám)

1985-07-01 / 4. szám

12. oldal MAGYAR EGYHÁZ Amid the many visitors who came to visit TOB, he knows, that his Redeemer lives and he has the Lord as an advocate in all his afflictions. Spiritually speaking we all live in the bondage of sin. Who can deliver us from our iniquities? Only God, who knows, our every weakness and all our abominations, who can see deep down into our soul? He knows, even our innermost secret thoughts, He is nearer to us, than our closest relative. He is our Redeemer indeed. Do not hesitate to come to Him and say as Job did: I KNOW, THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES.... Christ is your Savior, He came to save, the rich and the poor, come therefore to our Heavenly Father, bring to Him all your problems.... Then say unto Him: as Job said: I know, that my Redeemer lives ... Earthly relationships go far and wide, but at the end all will be over... When a loved one in the family dies, vou are sad, for you know, that you shall never meet here on earth again. BUT, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer lives today, and He shall live for ever. Accept Him as your Savior, and you, too, shall live for ever! Pay attention to the little word in our text MY Re­deemer lives! Make sure, that Jesus Christ is YOUR REDEEMER, trust Him wholly and completely. III. Then let us notice, the word: “LIVETH” OR LIVES . . . I know, that My Redeemer lives. ... Yes, Our Lord and Savior is a living God. Job’s children were all dead... Just imagine, the loss of 10 children, all within a short time. 7 boys and 3 girls, they were all young adults... Sometimes, when parents lose even one child, oh how difficult it is to comfort them ... Just recently we read, that several children perished in a house fire... YOU can imagine the heart ache of the parents, what tragedies there are in this life. BUT the Bible says: JOB’s sorrow was greater for all his 10 children died. A beautiful family, a wonderful man, going through so many trials, yet HIS FAITH never waiv­­ered... We read in the Bible, that he said: though my children are dead, I KNOW, THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES, He is a living Savior, and He shall save me, one day.... In our complex 20th century, we need fathers like Job, who bufld their faith upon Jesus Christ the rock of our salvation. Fathers, teach children, to have the same strong faith in God and His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.... Therefore, be not troubled. Be never dismayed for those who love God and put their trust in Jesus Christ shall live for ever and ever. Our Savior said: because I live, ye shall live also.... May God grant you this assurance of faith, in his holy son, that you may live with Him for ever and ever, in His heavenly kingdom. Amen. Dezső Abraham OOOOOODOOOÖOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKOOOOOOOOOOOÖOCOMMÖ NEW ECUMENICAL STATEMENT BACKS CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM ON ISSUES AFFECTING HUMAN DIGNITY WASHINGTON (N.C. OFFICE FOR INFORMA­TION) — A major new ecumenical document, drafted jointly by Roman Catholic and Presbyterian-Reformed church leaders in the United States, gives strong backing to civic and political activism on the part of Christians whenever the dignity of human beings is at stake. The 42-page document, entitled “Partners in Peace and Education,” was approved by the Roman Catholic/ Presbyterian-Reformed Consultation at a meeting in May and released to the press this week. The Consultation is sponsored jointly by the Com­mittee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Caribbean and North American Area Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian and Congregational). The dialogue between the two traditions has been going on uninterruptedly in the United Sta^s since 1965, and the latest document is the result of three years of study and exchange. “It is right we claim, for us to act as citizens in the political order on the strength of the perspectives and criticisms that our religious affords us,” says the docu­ment. “... We have not accepted the liberty to believe as we will at the price of cloistering those beliefs in the privacy of the church. We cannot be faithful Americans except as publicly and articulately^ Christian.” “It is in the public order that we fulfill the Lord’s relentless call to feed, house, clothe, heal, defend, and in every needed way, to sustain our sisters and brothers,” the document explains. “Our energetic participation in the civil state and its policies and institutions is an indispensa­ble sequel to our love of neighbor for the love of God.” The document hails the 1983 pastoral letter of the Catholic bishops of the United States, “The Challenge of Peace,” as a highwater mark in treating national issues of deep moral significance, and it calls that pastoral “one of the most discerning and prophetic statements on the issue (of war and peace) in recent years.” The new ecumenical document forecasts that the bishops’ 1983 peace pastoral “may well do for this issue in the American context what Martin Luther King, Jr. did for the issues of racism: the conscience of the nation, and not only that of a specific communion, is given a new level of cogent expression by religious leadership.” “In modern life, the instruments of coercive power reach devastating proportions,” says the new document. “The traditional vocation of the church to see that the use of military power be restrained is intensified.” The document lauds the fact that the process by which the bishops’ peace pastoral was drafted “involved open hearings with Protestants as well as Catholic theolog­ical and ethical scholars, circulation of several drafts with open invitations for comment, discussions with laity in government and. defense, experts in political and nuclear affairs, and discussion at congregational levels.” Praising such wide-scale cooperation as a model for the future, the document says “we strongly recommend to our respective denominations that other churches be con­sulted, their representatives be integrated into the drafting

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