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Theology e-magazine To make humanity united in worshipping God
our action, a world, divided by injustice: injustice not only personal but
institutionalized: built into economic, social, and political
our life.
structures.
There are millions of men and women ,specific people with names & faces, who are
suffering from poverty & hunger, from the unjust distribution of wealth & resources
and from the consequences of racial, social, & political discrimination. Not only the
quality of life but human life itself is under constant threat.
From faith comes the justice willed by God, the entry of the human
Page - 03 family into peace with God and with one another.
When a society has no moral and spiritual basis, the result is conflicting
ideologies of hatreds which provoke nationalistic, racial, economic and sexual
violence. To add the list further we may understand further that;
preaching fundamentalism, It is not exploitative propaganda but
religious faith, as the inspiration of the
ancestral curses,
human and social good found in God's
generating undue guilt conscience,
Kingdom that alone can take the human
sectarian teachings, family beyond decline and destructive
prosperity gospel, miracles, conflict.
wonders and emotionalism etc. violates the message of Gospel.
Our preaching have often failed to insert themselves into the heart of a culture,
but instead have remained a foreign presence.
Our mission, have failed to discover the treasures of humanity: the values,
depth, and transcendence of other cultures, which manifest the action of the
Spirit.
We have sometimes sided with the high culture of the elite: disregarding the
cultures of the poor and sometimes, by our passivity, allowing indigenous
cultures or communities to be destroyed.