Hello guys. I think it would be abit unwise to actually
put this thread's title as "Forming a radical church"; seems abit
negative. Hmm, forming a Church, that is a very beautiful idea.
The Church is the heart where are believers enjoy the
communion with God yeah? A place we would want to be every weekends
for Mass, for sermons, confessions, or even any time when we feel
that we should. Hmm, if you actually see it this way; the Church
signifies the coming of all God's people to be in union with Him,
so even if there is no Church, but the people who's heart are bent
on the communion with Him: we don't need a Church, we as a whole
are the Church itself.
I think we must understand the very heart of
Christianity; be it Catholics or Protestants. Christianity, is
the cradle of God, and it is upon Faith to God that the
unwavering Church has existed, very long enough. The importance of
Faith can be very well related to Passion of the Christ; Faith
undoubtedly, is the first virtue: just as how Christ the Anointed
One gives His full belief (Faith) to the Lord, Father, that we all
should too, unendingly and unwavering.
The following is what the Church is about; the choosing of
either the liturgical and canonical practices of Catholicism, or
the Protestant's. Though both ways, through the ethical and
cultural context might differ, they both served instrumental to the
Lord.
The Bible is the essential part of all Christians, it is a
must for all of us believers to read the word of God. In my
personal opinion, which might be wrong and I ask for forgiveness,
that; Bible does not only illustrates and seek to explain the
events, but it is through the explanation of connotative events
such as the notion of Jesus praying in Garden of Gethsemane that it
was revealed to all of us the beauty of this universal language
Christianity is all about. The Bible, not only a storybook, it is
the collection of beautiful and wondrous Morals and Virtues written
by the Servants of God via the help of God through the intercessory
of Holyspirit sent forth by God, and we should give thanks and
cherish it as long as we all live. If we have the Bible with us,
and do not seek to cherish it, what would have become of the
believers in the past when there were no Bible? That is why
the more we should take care, and cherish the Bible well.
Bible is not read literally, not that I know that it
should be fully read it in such way, as it should not have been;
but as such in the ways spiritually where the precious hidden
values are surfaced. My mum and aunt the non-believers once
told me that Bible is the scripture of priceless treasure, and I
see its value now :)
The Bible should be good enough as a guide for the
Church, especially those who are under the Ministry of God,
responsible for the vocations. It is eminent to follow and teach
just as the Bible says; no more, or no less, so that the message is
well received in a precise manner.
Hmm, as far as I know, there are no wisdoms that
are past, wisdoms should survive through past and present and
future. See it this way, we don't need to be in Sahara Desert, the
world we are living in is one Sahara Desert if any of you knows
what I am implying, a Desert so big, that it is times that of
Sahara Desert, enough temptations for all of us to cope I
guess.
A very beautiful idea for the forming of Church :)