Hungarian Church Press, 1968 (20. évfolyam, 2. szám)

1968-06-01 / 2. szám

HOP Vol XX Special Number

1968 No 2

19 -(07661)

Jesus was opposed to this type of piety and He condemned the priest and the Levite. God is greater than religion. His supreme test whioh He applies to us is whether we seek and do His righteousness. He does not let himself be bound by our religiosity. God is where His righteousness is*22)

A cult separated from the righteousness of God is abominable in His sight, Cult is also far the sake of the doing of God’s righteousness; it is not an end in itself; it is only acceptable to God if it is allied with the seeking of the righteousness of the Kingdom,, Without this alliance it is but dung*

e) The World Is One: the World of God

We may safely say that a Church failing to seek the righteousness of God in the realm of economics also forfeits her spiritual values. There is difference between spirit and matter, and yet this world of spirit and matter is one world: the world of God, God’s Kingdom is transcaadent in that it is immanent; it is above the world in that it is in the world; it is supernatural and, at the same time, natural. It is a dangerous thing to ignore

this truth. If the Church is only interested in the salvation of individuals, then she will lose her way which would lead to this end. If she is only interested in the world to cone, then her very vision of God’s new world is obscured.

If she only believes in God without seeking the righteousness of the Kingdom, then her faith in God also loses its strength. We should seriously investigate the question whether or not the most profound cause cf the process of secularisation has been this rending asunder of God’s one world into two separate realms* The Church must never overemphasize the otherwarldiiness af the Kingdom at the expense of its immanence. Faith always stands in the world and continually resists the temptation to stand above the world,

Christ is the Sovereign of this world also. This means that He direots with his power the secular history and takes part in it. This participation is mare than His activity in the life and history of His Church, Vic would misunderstand His reign if we forgot that He, the Living Lord, is free to walk in other ways than those within the boundaries cf the Church,

In his parable on the Last Judgment, Jesus teaches us that He is being continually "incarnated" in human misery. All the misery of man is His misery, all poverty in this world is His poverty. And whosoever, in any part of the world, fights for the cause of the poor, that man actually fights for the cause of Jesus of Nazareth, - wherever he may stand and whether he knows tin name of Jesus or not,23)

Whosoever performs the smallest service of humaneness, that man actually serves the cause of Jesus even if he refuses to know about the cause of Jesus, And whosoever omits to perform a single act cf humaneness that he