“Closure of churches God’s call to return to our roots to be church”
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“Closure of churches God’s call to return to our roots to be church,” African Nun Reflects (ACI Africa)
“Who is the church? What is the church? Does our daily going to church on Sundays make us truly the church, body of Christ, family of God? Or a congregation of people coming to sing, dance, feel good; then leave the church without connecting with each other, knowing each other and caring for each other even during the Mass?” the Nigerian scripture scholar poses in view of provoking thoughts and reflections.
For her, “the closure of the churches may be God’s way of asking us to return to our roots, to our scriptural roots about what it means to be church. It invites us to make faith-filled effort to believe that in God we live and move and have our being. No door can be closed to our reaching God and to God reaching us”...
“The early Christians celebrated the Lord’s Supper in private homes, what biblical scholars call ‘house churches’. A number of the key house churches were owned by women”...
The Nigerian nun appeals to Christians to stop protesting over the “locked church buildings” but instead “ask pardon for ourselves and for others, especially Christians, who have shut their ears to what Jesus tells us about our God-given identity and worth.”
There is a need for Christians around the world, according to Sr. Teresa, to realize that “we are the church and that no human being can close or lock up that church, except ourselves”...
“Who is the church? What is the church? Does our daily going to church on Sundays make us truly the church, body of Christ, family of God? Or a congregation of people coming to sing, dance, feel good; then leave the church without connecting with each other, knowing each other and caring for each other even during the Mass?” the Nigerian scripture scholar poses in view of provoking thoughts and reflections.
For her, “the closure of the churches may be God’s way of asking us to return to our roots, to our scriptural roots about what it means to be church. It invites us to make faith-filled effort to believe that in God we live and move and have our being. No door can be closed to our reaching God and to God reaching us”...
“The early Christians celebrated the Lord’s Supper in private homes, what biblical scholars call ‘house churches’. A number of the key house churches were owned by women”...
The Nigerian nun appeals to Christians to stop protesting over the “locked church buildings” but instead “ask pardon for ourselves and for others, especially Christians, who have shut their ears to what Jesus tells us about our God-given identity and worth.”
There is a need for Christians around the world, according to Sr. Teresa, to realize that “we are the church and that no human being can close or lock up that church, except ourselves”...
2RobertLloydRussell
The Church (upper case Church universal) has always been people -- never a building. I'm glad to have discovered this group and as a Christian author I am glad to be a part of it.
