The centurion of Capernaum: An example of a disturbing pattern
Matthew 8, 5-9 (Message for the bosses I-Christians)
MONDENGO Maurice, JR.,
Singing at the entrance of the Message
Lord, we come
across the horizon
Here we are with Thee
Lord, we come
across the horizon
In your house.
1. We walked on the roads Human
We carried the burden of days
We suffered fatigue and sentence
We offered our only love.
(And we still want to simply offer our love)
2. We walked in the midst of our brothers
We increased the weight of their days
We suffered at seeing their anger
We simply offered your love.
(And we still want to simply offer our love)
3. We here at last, everyone around the table
Gathered here to talk to You
You have fed us a great love
And we sing to you just our joy.
(And we still want you just sing our joy)
Lord we arrive
across the horizon
Here we are with Thee
Lord, we sing, we praise
Because it feels good in your house.
MONDENGO Maurice, JR.,
Singing at the entrance of the Message
Lord, we come
across the horizon
Here we are with Thee
Lord, we come
across the horizon
In your house.
1. We walked on the roads Human
We carried the burden of days
We suffered fatigue and sentence
We offered our only love.
(And we still want to simply offer our love)
2. We walked in the midst of our brothers
We increased the weight of their days
We suffered at seeing their anger
We simply offered your love.
(And we still want to simply offer our love)
3. We here at last, everyone around the table
Gathered here to talk to You
You have fed us a great love
And we sing to you just our joy.
(And we still want you just sing our joy)
Lord we arrive
across the horizon
Here we are with Thee
Lord, we sing, we praise
Because it feels good in your house.
Beloved beloved of the Father,
Today, from the four corners of the world, gathered in the house of God, we will, for the fertility of our imaginations do 'as if' we were, about the year 30, or Capernaum Capernaum, the authors of the Gospels. Capernaum appears to have been a town of no great importance to Israel at the time of Jesus of Nazareth.
This town is mentioned in the Gospels may be because Jesus was doing his evangelism when he passed from city to city and village to village on foot. This time there, he entered Capernaum, a Roman centurion came to him. In contrast, the leper of the same narrative in Matthew (Mt 8, 2), which might place his personal health problems and exclusion from society, why not, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean (because as the tradition and custom of those times, lepers were exclus.Ainsi, his recovery was closing the door to outright exclusion ...) the Roman centurion in Capernaum will make its debut near the Lord, pray for anything for himself, but rather to implore the mercy of the Lord for health and life of his servant whom he was very attached. He was very sick, lying, paralyzed and dying. There was no way out and no use except that going to Jesus.
This story of the Roman centurion and his servant the subject of this reflection that we have titled "The centurion of Capernaum: A disturbing example of a leader." The concern that motivates us is the question of our attitude vis-à-vis of those who work for us. Answering the question of whether we too are very attached to our servants, it is the essence of the appeal. We raise here the question of organizing the home in relation to the rights of domestic workers in the broader sense. It's sort of a question Die Haustafeln [1] that deal in this reflection.
1. Some preliminary
It is very advantageous to indicate, for we fix two things.
1. This is not the quality or quantity of faith that the Roman centurion who interests us in this reflection, even though it has been a man of faith that Jesus himself had found the same in all Israel. Yes, Jesus prayed for it to order and only simply healing where he was and his servant shall be healed. The greatness of his faith is demonstrated in the comparison he presents to the Lord from the command in the army where officers perform flawlessly under the orders of higher ranking.
2. These are not the works of generosity of this Roman centurion in respect of the Jewish community of interest in preaching, even the Jews adressèrent earnest entreaties of the Lord came to the rescue of the centurion's servant and testified for the stranger, saying to Jesus as a choir in unison: "He deserves that you grant him this, for it loves our nation, and it was he who built our synagogue. "
2. Someone asks ...
Yes, someone in the meeting itself raises the question: but what will he tell us? What? If this is not the faith of the Roman nor abroad for his generosity to Jews? But what does he tell us?
O! I want to tell him something. I would ask him not to disturb too much. Yes, I would say that apart from faith, apart from the humility of the Roman vis-à-vis Jesus outside his legendary generosity to go build a synagogue for Jews, this man This Roman centurion, yesterday among the Jews on one hand and today why not now in our society has raised an important issue. It questions our Christian conscience, our conscience leader, our consciousness of the Church, our awareness of the rule of law on the relationship with his servant. With him or better for him, we can ask ourselves a number of issues. How do we treat the servants who work for us? Let us pay attention to their problems? Are we simply see attached very attached to those who serve us, we keep our homes, keep us or mistreat us and we have no sympathy for them?
Each of us will examine themselves and answer all these questions in order to reach a decision as to say, hand on heart, the Bible passage that we comment:
I do not crush my servant because it is also the image of God And I do not strip because it is also the image of God. I adjourn or hijack my worker's salary because it is also full of loads and duties vis-à-vis himself and others. I will treat the stranger as one of mine because we are all aliens in the land [2] .
3. Understand the terms and
centurion servant in our context Matthean .
understanding of these terms or titles in the Gospels are very useful for us if we want to go out with good decisions at the end of this cult.
3.1 Roman centurion
We are here in antiquity. Slaves were part of the household. The centurion was an officer who commanded one century or a troop of one hundred men of arms in the ancient Roman army. But the soldiers usually had no families with them during service periods. As head of one hundred men at arms, but we can understand and say that this man was great in his office in the land of Roman settlement in Israel. He inspired respect, honor and dignity. We are among those who believe that Jews under the Roman colony, could not testify favorably and love for such a Roman citizen if he was a man villain, the head of one century that undermined the indigenous one century who extorts and abuses the poor unarmed civilians as is often the case with military and police harassment in our country without rights or respect.
3.2 centurion's servant
For the same word, the author of the Gospel of Matthew speaks of pais to tell a young boy home while the author of Luke, it speaks rather doulos to say slave , which grows to think that this is a young slave who worked for the Roman centurion. But what kept the contemporary history of slavery or slaves?
Slavery at that time and a period of history not always distant, was a social institution established by law and custom, the most restrictive forms of human bondage [3] .
Today, from the four corners of the world, gathered in the house of God, we will, for the fertility of our imaginations do 'as if' we were, about the year 30, or Capernaum Capernaum, the authors of the Gospels. Capernaum appears to have been a town of no great importance to Israel at the time of Jesus of Nazareth.
This town is mentioned in the Gospels may be because Jesus was doing his evangelism when he passed from city to city and village to village on foot. This time there, he entered Capernaum, a Roman centurion came to him. In contrast, the leper of the same narrative in Matthew (Mt 8, 2), which might place his personal health problems and exclusion from society, why not, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean (because as the tradition and custom of those times, lepers were exclus.Ainsi, his recovery was closing the door to outright exclusion ...) the Roman centurion in Capernaum will make its debut near the Lord, pray for anything for himself, but rather to implore the mercy of the Lord for health and life of his servant whom he was very attached. He was very sick, lying, paralyzed and dying. There was no way out and no use except that going to Jesus.
This story of the Roman centurion and his servant the subject of this reflection that we have titled "The centurion of Capernaum: A disturbing example of a leader." The concern that motivates us is the question of our attitude vis-à-vis of those who work for us. Answering the question of whether we too are very attached to our servants, it is the essence of the appeal. We raise here the question of organizing the home in relation to the rights of domestic workers in the broader sense. It's sort of a question Die Haustafeln [1] that deal in this reflection.
1. Some preliminary
It is very advantageous to indicate, for we fix two things.
1. This is not the quality or quantity of faith that the Roman centurion who interests us in this reflection, even though it has been a man of faith that Jesus himself had found the same in all Israel. Yes, Jesus prayed for it to order and only simply healing where he was and his servant shall be healed. The greatness of his faith is demonstrated in the comparison he presents to the Lord from the command in the army where officers perform flawlessly under the orders of higher ranking.
2. These are not the works of generosity of this Roman centurion in respect of the Jewish community of interest in preaching, even the Jews adressèrent earnest entreaties of the Lord came to the rescue of the centurion's servant and testified for the stranger, saying to Jesus as a choir in unison: "He deserves that you grant him this, for it loves our nation, and it was he who built our synagogue. "
2. Someone asks ...
Yes, someone in the meeting itself raises the question: but what will he tell us? What? If this is not the faith of the Roman nor abroad for his generosity to Jews? But what does he tell us?
O! I want to tell him something. I would ask him not to disturb too much. Yes, I would say that apart from faith, apart from the humility of the Roman vis-à-vis Jesus outside his legendary generosity to go build a synagogue for Jews, this man This Roman centurion, yesterday among the Jews on one hand and today why not now in our society has raised an important issue. It questions our Christian conscience, our conscience leader, our consciousness of the Church, our awareness of the rule of law on the relationship with his servant. With him or better for him, we can ask ourselves a number of issues. How do we treat the servants who work for us? Let us pay attention to their problems? Are we simply see attached very attached to those who serve us, we keep our homes, keep us or mistreat us and we have no sympathy for them?
Each of us will examine themselves and answer all these questions in order to reach a decision as to say, hand on heart, the Bible passage that we comment:
I do not crush my servant because it is also the image of God And I do not strip because it is also the image of God. I adjourn or hijack my worker's salary because it is also full of loads and duties vis-à-vis himself and others. I will treat the stranger as one of mine because we are all aliens in the land [2] .
3. Understand the terms and
centurion servant in our context Matthean .
understanding of these terms or titles in the Gospels are very useful for us if we want to go out with good decisions at the end of this cult.
3.1 Roman centurion
We are here in antiquity. Slaves were part of the household. The centurion was an officer who commanded one century or a troop of one hundred men of arms in the ancient Roman army. But the soldiers usually had no families with them during service periods. As head of one hundred men at arms, but we can understand and say that this man was great in his office in the land of Roman settlement in Israel. He inspired respect, honor and dignity. We are among those who believe that Jews under the Roman colony, could not testify favorably and love for such a Roman citizen if he was a man villain, the head of one century that undermined the indigenous one century who extorts and abuses the poor unarmed civilians as is often the case with military and police harassment in our country without rights or respect.
3.2 centurion's servant
For the same word, the author of the Gospel of Matthew speaks of pais to tell a young boy home while the author of Luke, it speaks rather doulos to say slave , which grows to think that this is a young slave who worked for the Roman centurion. But what kept the contemporary history of slavery or slaves?
Slavery at that time and a period of history not always distant, was a social institution established by law and custom, the most restrictive forms of human bondage [3] .
The main features of Slavery were the work or services by force, and the fact that the individual was treated as the property of another person, the owner, whose will it was fully subject . Since time immemorial, in most societies, slaves had been legally classified under the category of material goods and functional instruments. They too could be bought, sold, traded, gifted or pledged for a debt owed by the owner, usually without the slightest objection to personal or legal. There was often an ethnic difference between owners and their slaves and the phenomenon of slavery was often based on racism or prejudice of the powerful "superiority" of the ethnic group to which the owner belonged to the slaves [4] .
remember us and say here it is may be why Paul of Tarsus could well say to the Galatians:
There is neither Jew nor Greek (versus race), there is neither slave nor free (compared to the social institution) there is neither male nor female (compared to sex and gender), for you are all one in Christ Jesus
(Relative to the law of brotherly love and freedom of the freedmen of Jesus Christ thus belonging to the descendants of Abraham and heirs of the promise). [5]
Let's talk about our two characters at the center of this reflection.
4. Relationship between the centurion Capernaum and his servant
The Bible does not tell us a lot to us tired of the relationship between these two characters. The Bible does not give us a list of things that the centurion had to do against his servant. The Bible does not give us very clear guidance on behavior or on the way to work this young slave with his Roman master. But the Bible tells us clearly and simply as The Roman centurion was very attached to his servant. An outstanding leader, a Roman army officer ... but very attached to his servant and not the slave family was the only " family "that the officer had with him in happiness and in misery.
We must not lose sight that we had powerful dictators, tyrants, villains at the helm of our nation's third-world leaders who inspired fear more than anything else. Leaders who could not care about people who worked for them, leaders who could kill and be killed as easily as a morning sunrise to remain in power without worrying about the fate of their peoples while Matthew us This differs from our leader. A leader who disturbs our conscience boss Christian. He was very attached to his servant even very sick in bed, paralyzed and dying. Our Roman centurion was very attached to his servant what to say, be very attached to? We went for need understanding, just a little bit speculative. And we have brought together some 10 meaning of that term very attached. Hold:
1. The expression to be very attached to his servant, we may suggest that the centurion of Capernaum did not consider only his servant as a slave but first as a human;
2. Very attached we can suggest that the Roman centurion believed His servant as someone who also had rights, not just homework leader;
3. Very attached we can suggest that the Roman centurion took into account the work but also the physical health of his servant
4. Very attached we may also suggest that the Roman centurion had confidence in his servant, he could leave the house in shipping times and come right back at home
5. Very attached we can also suggest the degree of affection and sympathy for those who work at home the centurion of Capernaum;
6. Very attached can also let us hear the servant's work was based on love of Christ and that is why the Roman centurion went in person to Christ;
7. Very attached we may also suggest that the work of the servant was not as if an easement was made by a machine that should run 24/24heures restless. For his master, knowing God and knowing that God himself had also rested after the great work of creation, he could not refuse the rest to his servant, was a slave;
8. Very attached we may also suggest that the servant had found her niche as a family member near her head and the head could suffer when the suffering servant, cry when he cried and laughed when he laughed;
9. Very attached we may also suggest that, with the centurion's servant was the work not services by force or a person regarded as the property of his boss, the owner, whose will was fully taxable; but he was a self-oppressed or deprived and receiving his salary on the date specified;
10. Very attached we may also suggest that unlike the time most remote, which in most societies, slaves were legally categorized as material goods and functional instruments, so they could be bought, sold, traded, gifted or pledged for debt owner, usually without any power or legal personal objection, the centurion's servant was working at an almost Judeo-Christian God-fearing Roman. Thus, there was no difference in stick ethnically between owner and slave nor racism or prejudice of the powerful " superiority "unfair to a leader who mistreats, oppresses, body, retards the wages of his workers. Very attached, very attached ...
5. Who should be the centurion
for any servant today?
Dear brothers and sisters,
Let me serve you this food, which calls for brotherly love that the Lord gives us and calls us. Let's be humble and admit that the centurion of our time should be: leader or boss in each business and each family that uses one or more people at home, farm, each administrative authority or military, and every politician or not, every rule of law. In short, employers but those who are Christians.
And if we could not find the type of the Roman centurion in the categories mentioned, my faith, we should find among the Christians and our churches. Yet Christians are deemed to be bad payers and bad dealing with those who work for them. I would like to appoint in the expression patterns Christians. Patterns as some Christian pagan unfortunately see their servants as slaves in full-time post-modernism while the slave system was almost completely abolished. Bosses Christian believe that food and water that are given to workers during the hours of service can bridge the wage they expect at the end of the month as appropriate. The bosses even Christian who, unfortunately or fortunately, it depends, pray in the same church as their workers are those who have a very bad opinion about them. What a paradox in Christian love of God and neighbor as the gospel of Jesus Christ proclaimed and calls?
We call patterns Christians, following the Roman centurion in the Gospels, all these women and all men who have servants at home, gardeners ; Drivers who circulate and circulate their bosses and children bosses without breaks or meals; sentinels without coffee hot sellers without premium; bodyguards without food for days together, either for them or their families; workers, laborers, civil servants or private security without disease except security of being buried. In short, leaders or bosses who are just because one or more persons working for them to earn a wage, a salary that unfortunately does not come on time or do not come at all. In a way the bosses are a Christian Christian paradox erected facing love of neighbor. Shame for the Gospel of Christ? If Paul of Tarsus was not ashamed of the gospel or preaching, I firmly believe and am confident that he would have been ashamed to see that the bosses abuse their Christian brothers and sisters working in their homes. There is no evil that Christians not employed or working in a medium-boss Christian, it does not hurt is a Christian, to ensure its survival and that of his family is capable of any job, not because they say that it is unnecessary but foolish trades' t were only stupid people?
It is something that is disturbing in the praxis of Christianity today: the failure to live the way or the practice of love or justice in many Christian bosses. Is not that the Bible insists that the worker deserves his wages? Christians have ears that do not know hear this word of Scripture and even despise the rights of their servants. But what is still very troubling is the fact that when those of the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, the Mahikari, of mesmerism, symbolism, spiritualism, mysticism and many others who practice the occult lodges alchemy, astrology, divination and magic is ... support and their support, protect and safeguard their own and deal openly with their members respect the Christian bosses like the big and bigger fish eat up the humanity of other Christians who work in them. And especially when they rely on the recommendation evangelical counsels us not to go to complain to justice to those outside for things that we can arrange between themselves Christians, they abuse workers Christians. And if one dared to accuse her boss Christian to court for abuse or many priceless, this one, because of his notoriety and money, align lawyers to defend justice in the unjust world of the fittest, but more importantly, he would find among the pastors, deacons and elders of the church acquired a few people to his cause to compel the worker-Christian to withdraw his complaint.
Where are the Christians who kept each day of good relations with their workers? Where are the Christian patron who paid well and without deferment of pay of their workers?
Paul of Tarsus did not he asked forcefully that those who do not want to work do not eat either? Yet Christians have worked those who came looking for a job even anything without paying them wages and this makes it n 'there is no offerings or tithes into the storehouse.
Where are the good bosses to illuminate the Christian world in the field of justice? Where are the pastors, evangelists, Christian leaders to denounce such conduct anti-evangelical qu'entretiennent still many people who fill our churches, fund our conventions, dinners, Full Gospel, our crusades, our prayer meetings across the world? Where have they gone? Where Have all gone THEY?
In concluding this call for brotherly love, this call to respect the humanity of those who work with us, I would like to ask us when we return to our respective communities, to take a little time for an examination of conscience. Yes, if the appeal shocks us, let us know that we are guilty somewhere and that is a starting point to change as long as it is guided by the call of conscience to stop.
And let me also ask you to stop. Stop with the anti-evangelical behavior remains the power and meaning of Christianity; stop, with This behavior is abusive towards the children of our Father God in heaven, stop with that. Stop otherwise, God will take their revenge. How have you forgotten that the Lord blessed the work of our hands? And if the hands that have worked are not receiving rewards, how can God bless you Christian bosses?
As sung, a beloved, this wonderful song that is included in the Protestant hymnody valuable of all time, let me speak to your Christian conscience with the words of this song:
Stop it O sinner edges and it is dark the way. (But)
Where are you hanging his head, not thinking at your end?
O! I would ask that each of us dream to an end today. It is really dark the path we have taken or inherited in the treatment of our workers. God deplores and has something against us. Because the cry of those who work for us went up to his throne. But it will soon descend. God's children are suffering. Christian bosses make them suffer. For evidence, I would urge, Christian bosses to do what duty of inquiry by the love for the Lord:
Go, Christians! Go and ask your home, your gardener, your drivers, your sentinel, your bodyguard, your workers to the site, your servants, your servants, to all those who work for you in your endeavors ... yes , ask them if they are happy with you?
Go, Christians! Go and ask your colleagues patterns between illness and death, if the money is generated for you by the workers when it comes out a little easier for the body? And it is in what circumstances? In the case of illness or the death occurred?
Go, Christians! Go and ask yourself if you're still even simply attached to your workers? Ask yourself if you can move to as the Roman centurion in Capernaum to find a solution to their problem of physical, mental, psychological or spiritual?
Go, Christians! go and ask yourself how much do you pay your workers after they squeezed like oranges and robbed all their health?
Go, Christians! Go and ask yourself how you treat the stranger who works for you? Abroad as from another ethnic group as you?
Come, Christians! Let's get together and ask ourselves if we and our workers we are all united in Spirit and in Jesus we ask ourselves if the King's table we share the same bread, we ask Christians if one heart we want to work for Jesus in front of our workers, proclaim to all men that Jesus offers us salvation, we ask if the world around us will one day when we Christians love without which our acts are big footprint? And can - we still sing this song, All united in spirit without hinder us in our Christian conscience? Sing and
say:
All united in Spirit
Unite in Jesus (2x) We pray that soon
which is no longer divided.
Ref:
And the world will know we are Christians
. For the love that our actions are imbued
.
We walk side by side
And hand in hand (2x)
At the King's table
We share the same bread.
With one heart, we want
Working for Jesus (2x)
proclaim to all men
it offers us salvation. Glory to God
Creator of heaven and earth
Glory to the eternal Son, Redeemer
glorious Glory, glory to the Spirit pouring in
we love God.
I do not think ... I do not think we can consciously sing this song when we are still unable to live the meaning of a little love or just commitment vis-à-vis our servants or our workers.
I think our workers marched on the roads human like ourselves. But more than us, they carried the burden of today. They suffered from fatigue and pain for your business. But we did not even offer simply that God pours into us.
I think our workers were believed to walk and work among their brothers than we are. Only more than us, they took the brunt of the dark days of our businesses. They have suffered and endured seeing our anger, sometimes for nothing. But we did not even offer just the love that God pours into us.
We are finally, employers and workers-Christians all around the table to share bread. We have come here to talk about the God who feeds us a great love. But something bothers me. Are we willing to simply offer our consent to the change of mentality and behavior vis-à-vis our workers? Are we ready to imitate the centurion of Capernaum which is our story for us a disturbing example of a leader?
Yes, we must be born again. We need to start over and start from scratch in the way we live with those who work with us, with us and for us.
My brothers and sisters,
Following Jeremiah, let me cry To the law and evidence, if one does not speak well, there will be no light in people. Yes, even our Congolese people that goes to elections to choose its leaders, it needs to dawn. We must go to the polls to choose leaders who know how to suffer with others, sharing not only happiness but also as a misfortune the Roman centurion. Leaders who understand that without the workers there is no production of leaders who know that the people from below which the dignity student leaders who are chosen by them, among them and for them.
Our Congolese society, our churches in the Congo, our Christian families, our bosses and leaders, our country and our authorities, each of us where he is as leader must learn to focus, to understand, empathize, to share the joy and pain, the burdens of life, compassion and seek not only peace but also the welfare of his servants.
doing so, we shall repeat forever, because we are committed to God in Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit and our workers, we do not oppress them or counting. We adjourn over the wages of our workers nor the diversion to other purposes. We even treat the stranger as one of ours because it is also the image of God and we are all strangers on earth.
Someone wondered if we have something to gain by following the example of the troubling Roman centurion in our dealings with those who work with us. But of course, yes, Christian bosses. We have much to gain from this imitation the Roman centurion close to our servants or workers. They are the ones who stay long in our home when we're not there. They are the ones who care about us and our children and even our food and beverage. It is they lead us night and day. They are the ones who protect us physically as bodyguards. They are the ones who do what we can do. But we must say: They are capable of doing harm. They can hurt us in retaliation for our ill-treatment because they know as well do it carefully. Is not that the evidence and the sad stories of what workers have caused such harm to their managers or employers are legion?
My beloved in the Beloved of the Father,
We must conclude. This story of the Roman centurion and his servant was at the center of our thinking. We hold the same centurion of Capernaum, which will long for those who believe in Jesus Christ a disturbing example of a leader. The concern was that which inspired us to ask ourselves about our attitude vis-à-vis those who work for us. Examine our conscience as a Christian, our consciousness leader, our consciousness of the Church, our awareness of the rule of law on the relationship with his servant. With the Roman centurion's troubling behavior, we asked ourselves a number of generic issues such as: How do we treat the servants who work for us? Let us pay attention to their problems? We are very attached or not to those who serve us, take our homes, we keep? The mistreat us or not? Us feel sympathy for them or not? Each judge is himself.
I thought to myself that if we treat our servants and workers like human beings, men and free women, not as slaves or as machines working, we are happy. If we pay them properly, and with what they receive us, they are also able to send their children to school, we are happy. If what we hand them as wages, they can also go to good hospitals, we are happy. If we can show them that we also account for them by our actions ... and loving and justice, and someone shows that we too are committed to them as was the Roman centurion to his servant, we are happy. Christ also will be happy to have us as his disciples.
Yes, if we love our servants, our servants as we love and will even when we pray. They pray with us in our assemblies while respecting us as their leaders. They will love us and we will see their children carry our names. Yes, they will come, who knows, help to the dark days of our lives. Is not that the girl slave of Naaman had saved the life of his master? Does not she leprosy Would not kill the great Syrian general? And what would happen if the girl, because of the abuse, had stopped in front of the unfortunate situation of general? Everyone has an answer to these questions. Let us also attached to our servants. Otherwise, do not engage with us. God also loves and defends one way or other rights and defend when we do their homework n'exigeons servants.
Beloved,
Today, I thought we should talk to the bosses Christian leaders that we are each doing what it's there. My concern was that of denouncing the purposes of seeing things changed in this area where Christians still behave without heart vis-à-vis their brothers and sisters. There comes a day continue to this message, this time, we send Christian workers who work with us and with us. Especially those from within: the brothers and sisters in Christ who break also often the heads of their Christian masters. Because we believe that the Roman centurion had found something good manners, to be ... in this young slave. Yes, its attachment should be the result of something. For this attachment, it seems to me he was not at all disinterested. We will return. May God bless you.
Amen.
A Sermon made CBFC / Lukusa
March 26, 2006
NOTES [1] We refer here to work MUSHILA Nyamankank who in his book on the Epistle of Jacques, address the question of organization the house, the duties and rights of the husband, wife, slaves and even pets. And he uses the technical term German Die Haustafeln explains everything about this organization.
[2] Cf Dt 19, 13ss with our additions.
[3] Cf Read Encarta Encyclopedia 2005 for more information on slavery.
[4] Ibid .
[5] Gal. 3, 28-29 with our additions.
All united in Spirit
Unite in Jesus (2x) We pray that soon
which is no longer divided.
Ref:
And the world will know we are Christians
. For the love that our actions are imbued
.
We walk side by side
And hand in hand (2x)
At the King's table
We share the same bread.
With one heart, we want
Working for Jesus (2x)
proclaim to all men
it offers us salvation. Glory to God
Creator of heaven and earth
Glory to the eternal Son, Redeemer
glorious Glory, glory to the Spirit pouring in
we love God.
I do not think ... I do not think we can consciously sing this song when we are still unable to live the meaning of a little love or just commitment vis-à-vis our servants or our workers.
I think our workers marched on the roads human like ourselves. But more than us, they carried the burden of today. They suffered from fatigue and pain for your business. But we did not even offer simply that God pours into us.
I think our workers were believed to walk and work among their brothers than we are. Only more than us, they took the brunt of the dark days of our businesses. They have suffered and endured seeing our anger, sometimes for nothing. But we did not even offer just the love that God pours into us.
We are finally, employers and workers-Christians all around the table to share bread. We have come here to talk about the God who feeds us a great love. But something bothers me. Are we willing to simply offer our consent to the change of mentality and behavior vis-à-vis our workers? Are we ready to imitate the centurion of Capernaum which is our story for us a disturbing example of a leader?
Yes, we must be born again. We need to start over and start from scratch in the way we live with those who work with us, with us and for us.
My brothers and sisters,
Following Jeremiah, let me cry To the law and evidence, if one does not speak well, there will be no light in people. Yes, even our Congolese people that goes to elections to choose its leaders, it needs to dawn. We must go to the polls to choose leaders who know how to suffer with others, sharing not only happiness but also as a misfortune the Roman centurion. Leaders who understand that without the workers there is no production of leaders who know that the people from below which the dignity student leaders who are chosen by them, among them and for them.
Our Congolese society, our churches in the Congo, our Christian families, our bosses and leaders, our country and our authorities, each of us where he is as leader must learn to focus, to understand, empathize, to share the joy and pain, the burdens of life, compassion and seek not only peace but also the welfare of his servants.
doing so, we shall repeat forever, because we are committed to God in Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit and our workers, we do not oppress them or counting. We adjourn over the wages of our workers nor the diversion to other purposes. We even treat the stranger as one of ours because it is also the image of God and we are all strangers on earth.
Someone wondered if we have something to gain by following the example of the troubling Roman centurion in our dealings with those who work with us. But of course, yes, Christian bosses. We have much to gain from this imitation the Roman centurion close to our servants or workers. They are the ones who stay long in our home when we're not there. They are the ones who care about us and our children and even our food and beverage. It is they lead us night and day. They are the ones who protect us physically as bodyguards. They are the ones who do what we can do. But we must say: They are capable of doing harm. They can hurt us in retaliation for our ill-treatment because they know as well do it carefully. Is not that the evidence and the sad stories of what workers have caused such harm to their managers or employers are legion?
My beloved in the Beloved of the Father,
We must conclude. This story of the Roman centurion and his servant was at the center of our thinking. We hold the same centurion of Capernaum, which will long for those who believe in Jesus Christ a disturbing example of a leader. The concern was that which inspired us to ask ourselves about our attitude vis-à-vis those who work for us. Examine our conscience as a Christian, our consciousness leader, our consciousness of the Church, our awareness of the rule of law on the relationship with his servant. With the Roman centurion's troubling behavior, we asked ourselves a number of generic issues such as: How do we treat the servants who work for us? Let us pay attention to their problems? We are very attached or not to those who serve us, take our homes, we keep? The mistreat us or not? Us feel sympathy for them or not? Each judge is himself.
I thought to myself that if we treat our servants and workers like human beings, men and free women, not as slaves or as machines working, we are happy. If we pay them properly, and with what they receive us, they are also able to send their children to school, we are happy. If what we hand them as wages, they can also go to good hospitals, we are happy. If we can show them that we also account for them by our actions ... and loving and justice, and someone shows that we too are committed to them as was the Roman centurion to his servant, we are happy. Christ also will be happy to have us as his disciples.
Yes, if we love our servants, our servants as we love and will even when we pray. They pray with us in our assemblies while respecting us as their leaders. They will love us and we will see their children carry our names. Yes, they will come, who knows, help to the dark days of our lives. Is not that the girl slave of Naaman had saved the life of his master? Does not she leprosy Would not kill the great Syrian general? And what would happen if the girl, because of the abuse, had stopped in front of the unfortunate situation of general? Everyone has an answer to these questions. Let us also attached to our servants. Otherwise, do not engage with us. God also loves and defends one way or other rights and defend when we do their homework n'exigeons servants.
Beloved,
Today, I thought we should talk to the bosses Christian leaders that we are each doing what it's there. My concern was that of denouncing the purposes of seeing things changed in this area where Christians still behave without heart vis-à-vis their brothers and sisters. There comes a day continue to this message, this time, we send Christian workers who work with us and with us. Especially those from within: the brothers and sisters in Christ who break also often the heads of their Christian masters. Because we believe that the Roman centurion had found something good manners, to be ... in this young slave. Yes, its attachment should be the result of something. For this attachment, it seems to me he was not at all disinterested. We will return. May God bless you.
Amen.
A Sermon made CBFC / Lukusa
March 26, 2006
NOTES [1] We refer here to work MUSHILA Nyamankank who in his book on the Epistle of Jacques, address the question of organization the house, the duties and rights of the husband, wife, slaves and even pets. And he uses the technical term German Die Haustafeln explains everything about this organization.
[2] Cf Dt 19, 13ss with our additions.
[3] Cf Read Encarta Encyclopedia 2005 for more information on slavery.
[4] Ibid .
[5] Gal. 3, 28-29 with our additions.
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