The beginning of church planting

Posted on 2026/03/24 by Guestspeaker

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In today’s world where denial is an asset, there is an enormous need for church planters, people who are so inspired by the belief that they dare to row up against the current and spread the faith in such a way that they are willing to start a house church or other kind of church.

Church planting should be distinguished from church development, where a new service, worship centre or fresh expression is created that is integrated into an already established congregation. For a local church to be planted, it must eventually have a separate life of its own and be able to function without its parent body, even if it continues to stay in relationship denominationally or through being part of a network.

The health of a church or any ministry organisation is directly linked to the health of its leaders. In a missiological context, church planting may be defined as

“initiating reproductive fellowships who reflect the kingdom of God in the world.”

When this happens with rapid growth, it is generally known as a church planting movement or disciple-making movement. Church planters may be used to improvising, but when it comes to their spiritual lives, they can’t afford to just wing it. Featuring real-life stories from leaders, suggested practices, and discussion questions in each chapter, this book will equip individuals and teams (and those who coach them) to commit to an intentional plan for spiritual formation—for the good of their churches, their relationships, and their own lives as disciples of Jesus.

Already from the first century of this common era we can find church planters. The first ones were the disciples of the Nazarene master teacher Jeshua ben Josef, better known today as Jesus Christ the Messiah. The students of the talmidim continued the apostolic work and through them spread the Christian faith across the earth’s surface, and more and more churches were planted. Christianity spread to other areas than Judea and Samaria because persecution forced the Christians to leave Jerusalem. Already, soon after Jesus’ death gentiles also became interested in the work and role of Jesus. From the apostles, the dissemination work among the non-Jews was largely the work of the Apostle Paul, who had formerly been a Pharisee and a persecutor of the church. So we see that we should not judge too quickly about people who first have different thoughts than us, but that we should be open to receive them and provide them with the Biblical teaching that Jesus Christ proclaimed.

The book of Acts gives us a good picture of how faith spread and how the first faith communities took shape. It describes Christianity as spreading through the preaching of it in public areas. It then describes the believers of Christianity as gathering together regularly in homes and, at least in the beginning, at the Temple in Jerusalem. After the Apostolic Period, house churches multiplied and even started to grow at the seams so that larger buildings were needed for the meetings.

Gradually, new churches emerged from the main churches, which remained dependent on the mother church. To this day we see an outgrowth from the mother churches.

Beyond the vocational capacities every church planter needs, there’s a range of capabilities more difficult to measure but even more essential, which we shall discuss in the next postings. Looking at:

What does it take to be a church planter or other ministry entrepreneur?

Most leaders start out with passion, a sense of calling, and a focus on building ministry skills. Such things might get some results, but they are not enough to sustain a healthy ministry — or a healthy life. Beyond the vocational capacities every church planter needs, there’s a range of capabilities more difficult to measure but even more essential: what veteran church planter Tim Morey calls spiritual competencies.

Probably the most important issue facing the church in the West is how to plant churches that are healthy Christian communities themselves and are vital to their local communities. Even with all of the great revivals of evangelicalism in the last half of the twentieth century, those under thirty years of age are only about 8 percent evangelical today. {Planting a church without losing your soul, Nine Questions for the Spiritually Formed Pastor, by Tim Morey}

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A long tradition of mentoring in the spiritual life

Posted on 2026/02/24 by Guestspeaker

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The Long Tradition

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Catholic mentoring in the spiritual life — before and after the Protestant Reformation — continued to take place almost entirely within the frame of religious vows, among men and women who, like ancient philosophers, chose to commit themselves to (what they regarded as) a higher and more difficult expression of Christian identity. Whether in Benedictine monasteries (male and female) and in the families of monks in the West that derived from the Benedictines (Cistercians, Trappists), or in male and female religious orders that sprang up in the Middle Ages and beyond — Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, and many others — the basic pattern set by the monastic life continued.

Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada;[c] 28 March 1515 – 4 or 15 October 1582) a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer.

From one perspective, such religious life was remarkably stable and predictable, with monks and mendicants passing through stages of postulancy, novitiate, simple vows, and solemn vows while living out their obedience to the order’s rules and authority structure.
From another perspective, those driven by the desire for unity with God entered upon an arduous journey of the soul that required careful guidance. The role of the individual “spiritual director” was therefore a key element in the mentoring process.
Patriarchal arrangements obtained: male monks and mendicants often served as spiritual directors as well as confessors for women religious (as, in the sixteenth century, John of the Cross was for Teresa of Avila, even though he was a follower of her reform movement). Among the many classics of mysticism written over this long span of time, several of them are noteworthy for adopting a mentoring stance toward the reader, leading him or her along on the path of mystical ascent: the anonymous Cloud of Unknowing (late fourteenth century), Teresa of Avila’s Way of Perfection (late sixteenth century), and John of the Cross’s Ascent of Mount Carmel (late sixteenth century).

When the Council of Trent, seeking to reform the clergy who did not belong to religious orders, mandated the establishment of seminaries for the training of priests (session 23 in 1563), the model of spiritual formation in monasteries and religious orders was transposed to the preparation of diocesan clergy. Seminary life in many ways imitated the routine of monasteries. A formal position within Roman Catholic seminaries * was therefore that of spiritual director, whose responsibilities included conferences on the spiritual life. In addition to the official spiritual director, seminarians were encouraged to choose a personal director, who would serve both as confessor and as spiritual guide. Depending on the individual gifts of such directors, personal advice could range from the obtuse and purely formal to the personally engaging and psychologically discerning. Just as the monastery’s novice master was to “test spirits,” so in the Roman Catholic seminary, the spiritual director played a key role in helping the seminarian (and institution) to discern the authenticity of his vocation.

Mentoring, Biblical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives, Edited by Dean K. Thompson and D. Cameron Murchison

Catholic clergy at the consecration of the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo (1889).

In addition to its impact on Roman Catholic doctrine, the legislation of Trent also reformed the internal life and discipline of the church. Two of its most far-reaching provisions were the requirement that every diocese provide for the proper education of its future clergy in Catholic seminaries and the requirement that the clergy, and especially the bishops, give more attention to the task of preaching. Financial abuses were brought under control, and strict rules requiring the residency of bishops in their dioceses were established. The council also established specific prescriptions about the form of the mass and liturgical music.

Important decisions to make

Posted on 2025/12/19 by Marcus Ampe

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We realise that preaching is necessary and that we must follow the instructions of the Nazarene teacher Jesus Christ. But to go out and preach the word of God, it takes a lot of things. It is not that we, like the apostles, can go from house to house to house and from residence to residence and count on a reception there where we should not worry about finding shelter and food.
Today we ourselves must ensure that enough money flows in to fulfil our worldly obligations. That means we have to work to secure our income. In addition, we must be able to make time for preaching. Even after I retired, I continued to do some work that brought in extra money, allowing me to support my preaching work. However, that preaching work, which kept ecclesiae open, did require a large contribution of private resources.

As preachers, we must be careful that not too much of private property or family money goes into the missionary work. When establishing a new church and renting a Beit Kneset or opening a synagogue, my wife requested that no more private funds be put into it.

For one year now, we have tried to open the gathering place in Anderlecht as a study space and meeting hall. For this, monthly rental fees had to be paid. And in a year that amount has risen firmly, while, unfortunately, there was no income against it. This means that this month we had to take drastic measures and still proceed to terminate the lease. Without income, it was impossible to continue our preaching work there. Now we will have to take pleasure in staying in living rooms or house churches, to greet people and tell about the Word of God. It has therefore been decided to give a small fee to those who let us meet in their home. This will require a financial contribution from us, but we want to do that in order for our faith community to exist and hopefully continue to grow. In any case, we still provide our various websites in addition to our ecclesiae, where we hope to get people together and thus continue our missionary work.

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The Resurrection events in the order they happened!

Posted on 2024/07/17 by Christadelphians

The Resurrection events in the order they happened!

Sceptics sometimes challenge Christians to provide an account of the events of Jesus’ resurrection in chronological order.

A @Christadelphians Video does exactly that. It retells the story of the resurrection, leaving nothing of significance out and showing the order of events.

The resurrection of Jesus is the central event of Christianity and one of the most important events in the history of the world. It is important to understand that the accounts of the day of the resurrection fit well together, although the way that they do so is far from obvious.
The events of the day of the resurrection begin when women who had followed Jesus meet in Jerusalem to visit the tomb of Jesus for the purpose of completing the anointing of his body. They find the tomb empty. While Mary Magdalene leaves immediately to alert some of the Apostles, other women enter the tomb and are met by angels. The women then head off in separate groups, some tell the disciples what has happened, but others are afraid and take no further part in events that day.

Peter and John go to the tomb and find it empty. A little later Mary Magdalene returns to the tomb, where she is the first person to see Jesus alive on this day. Other meetings of Jesus continue. At some point Jesus meets Peter the disciple, and on another occasion he meets two disciples on the road to Emmaus. Towards sunset Jesus visits a group of many of his disciples in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. The disciples remain in Jerusalem for some days before travelling to Galilee where they meet him on more occasions, two of which are described in some detail in the Gospels of Matthew and John. Finally they return to Jerusalem, where they stay until the ascension of Jesus 40 days after the resurrection.

The account of the day of the resurrection is complicated and involves many events told by different people and recorded in four main accounts (in the Gospels) with additional information in Acts and the letters. However, the accounts fit together and, given their obvious independence, this is strong evidence of their truth and accuracy. Complications may arise in that the writers of the Gospels used the conventions of their day and did not follow modern ways of writing accounts. Thus they might only describe the actions of the one person in whom they are interested within a larger group of people, and might summarise in a way that a modern writer would not.

# Summary

The presentation describes the sequence of events following Jesus’s resurrection, starting with his crucifixion, burial, and subsequent appearances to his followers. ### Highlights –

📜 **Crucifixion and Burial**: Jesus is crucified by the Romans, and Joseph of Arimathea places his body in his own tomb, sealed with a large stone. –

👮 **Guarding the Tomb**: The chief priests and Pharisees request Roman soldiers to guard the tomb to prevent Jesus’s followers from stealing the body.

🌄 **Discovery of the Empty Tomb**: On the third day, women arrive at the tomb to anoint Jesus’s body but find the stone rolled away and the tomb empty. –

👼 **Angel’s Announcement**: An angel informs the women that Jesus has risen, instructing them to tell his disciples. –

🏃 **Disciples’ Confirmation**: Peter and John visit the tomb, find it empty, and believe Jesus has risen. –

💬 **Jesus’s Appearance to Mary**: Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene outside the tomb, confirming his resurrection. –

🚶 **Jesus on the Road to Emmaus**: Jesus appears to two followers on their way to Emmaus, revealing himself during their journey. –

👨‍👩‍👧 **Jesus Appears to Women**: Jesus appears to some women returning from the tomb, asking them to inform his disciples.

🛡️ **Authorities’ Cover-Up**: The local authorities bribe soldiers to claim that Jesus’s disciples stole his body while they slept. –

🚪 **Appearance in the Upper Room**: Jesus appears to his disciples in a locked room, showing his wounds and eating fish to prove he is alive.

Please do find the video: The Story of the Resurrection

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A new Cuban missile crisis? Putin sends warships to Havana

Posted on 2024/06/19 by Christadelphians

The Times, June 12, 2024

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The arrival of an unusual flotilla in Havana harbour was heralded by the thunderous sound of cannon fire, as 21 guns saluted a Russian “strike group” of warships, including a nuclear submarine. If the heads of locals were turned by the visitors to the colonial heart of the city, so too were those of the Americans who had been shadowing the vessels as they made their way to visit a former Cold War ally at a time of heightened tensions between Russia and the West. At the forefront of the flotilla was a 135-metre frigate, the Admiral Gorshkov, named after the head of the Soviet Union’s once formidable Red Fleet. It was not clear whether the grey-hulled ship had been equipped with Russia’s latest Zircon hypersonic missiles, capable of flying close to nine times the speed of sound, with a maximum range of 460 miles (740km). On its way to Cuba, the flotilla conducted drills in the Atlantic, simulating a missile strike on a group of enemy ships, according to Russia’s ministry of defence, which released video of the exercise.

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In 1962 Soviet nuclear weapons placed in Cuba brought the world as close as it has ever come to nuclear war. It became known as the Cuban missile crisis. Some are comparing Russian warships coming with 30 miles of US shores as a comparable escalation.

John Kirby, the White House national security spokesman, has insisted the fleet does not represent an “imminent threat”. James Bosworth, a political risk analyst, wrote in the World Politics Review that Russia is demonstrating “power projection” using its warships.

The Bible says that Russia will come against the king of the south (US/UK) with “many ships.” As well as invading Israel with many ships Russia could also use its ships around the world. Russia is clearly preparing for conflict….

Bible Quote

And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. (Daniel 11:40)

Weekly World Watch, Andy Walton

Was it a year not to step on the toes?

Posted on 2022/11/18 by Marcus Ampe

Not a silent but (perhaps) less irritating year

Three years of Corona pandemic came along and except for China not many countries seem still to worry.

In Europe, something very different from a Coronavirus has caught our attention. The danger is that this virus could spread and kill many more people than Corona did.
It is about the Putin virus or Russian disease as Trump might start calling it.

Just as a lot of fake news came our way during the Trump era, a lot of work had to be done in recent years to ‘debunk’ those misleading or deceptive reports.
You might think that here on this site with the name “Stepping toes” would be the ideal place to strip such disseminated falsehoods or lie talk of credibility. People like to sell talking points, and in recent years it seemed to have become a sport to send as many falsehoods into the world as possible. But to counter the many false messages posted on social media, this site was actually not originally planned.

Last year may have reached the pinnacle of fake message spreading. It could not go on any longer. Something had to be done to restore honour to journalism and bring correct messages to the world.

Young people were increasingly reaching for their smartphones with all kinds of apps to follow Facebook and Instagram posts, as if they could get the very best news there. But correct messaging was far from there. Social media won out over the daily and weekly newspapers that lost out, raising the question of whether there was still a possibility of life for serious journalism.
While newspapers were under pressure and many wondered how to survive this resort to social media, blogs also came under fire. Google and WordPress thought no better of changing their systems. At Blogger, it made a lot of bloggers tired of the difficulties in the system and took refuge elsewhere. Thus, I too decided to take refuge in the WordPress that was familiar to me with the old editor, hoping that WordPress would not force everyone to have to use the hideous block editor (introduced in 2018) (because it is really totally impractical for free writing and design).

Converting all the Google sites to the new system took a lot of time, so there have been somewhat fewer articles on my WordPress sites over the last two years, except for this year at my newcomer.

It is for that newcomer that I would like to draw your attention today.

The format of that new WordPress site is not really new, as the newcomer is actually a continuation of the former Blogspot sites “Christadelphian World” and “Our World“. The only difference now is actually a result of an easier form of writing and shaping for publishing or publishing articles. Because this is now much easier than Blogspot, I can now provide more articles at the same time.

As the title for the site, I chose “Some View on the World” or “Enige Kijk op de Wereld” because the site wants to give a view of what is happening in the world, while also giving more clarity on certain facts.
In the first year of its new form, it has been a bit of a search to find a way to leave enough time for my other Christian websites, while still being able to provide a balanced news overview that can be relied upon to be verified reporting and thus present accurate facts to the reader.

I believe I now know roughly how to tackle it for 2023 and hope that with my outline I can attract enough readers to further follow the links provided in the articles as well.

I do hope still to provide a day-to-day events review, and do hope people will find it useful.
I shall continue to try to offer ideas and context and depth, as well as information: a combination of clarity (the facts to help you understand the world) and imagination (the ideas you need to build a better one).

This better world that needs to be worked on is extremely important. We must realise that it is not ‘five to twelve’, but that the hands have long been moving in the wrong direction and that the earth is crying out loudly for support. For far too long, we have neglected the earth and been careless with its resources. Now we have to bear the consequences. Global warming is a fact, although many still do not want to acknowledge it. On “Some View on the World” we do want to pay attention to that earth which we have been given on loan by the Creator. Indeed, it is high time we took our responsibility and took steps to address that climate change.

We don’t particularly want to tread on toes on that “new site”, but we do want to regularly draw attention to those issues that really should get our attention.

In a way, I also hope to have caught your attention and made you warm to go and take a look at that news site (or online newspaper) and (who knows) subscribe there too to be kept informed of new articles.

Be welcome to “Some View on the World”.

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Wrestling with Genesis and Revelation

Posted on 2022/03/24 by Christadelphians

The inability of Christians to grasp the meaning and message of both Genesis and Revelation create a great divide in America. Christians struggle with both the beginning and culmination of the Scriptures — the Alpha and the Omega as they might be called. Both Genesis and Revelation bring a lot of baggage with them to the American religious scene.

We have great division on end-times views stemming from misadventures into Revelation. Our confused teaching has scarred our culture and created a religious society that has wasted immense energy preparing for the end of the world. The predictions have come and gone these past decades.

A few Christians are now ready, finally — at last, to leave behind the “Left Behind” mentality. Why? There have been too many false predictions. For some of us, they are hard to forget. Things got going with The Late Great Planet Earth in 1970. They heated up in 1987, and then we found it was really going to happen in 1988. Through the 90’s and even today we hear about the Middle East in prophecy. First, it was the Soviet Union. Then it was Saddam Hussein. Is it the European Union? Or is it Islam? The hot ticket for the Antichrist keeps changing hands. And who can forget Y2K? They have all come and gone and with them goes the credibility of tens of millions of Christians in America.

Genesis has been a more dangerous venture for some. Wrongly understood, it has the potential to undermine one’s faith in the God of creation.

Martin Timothy, Vaughn Jeffrey (2007) “Beyond Creation Science: New covenant creation from Genesis to Revelation” Apocalyptic Vision Press Whitehall MT

Seems a fair point. Those loudest about how Genesis must be understood have a long history of prophetic interpretative failures (from which nothing is learnt).

COD

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Iran taunts Israel by testing missile named after medieval Jewish defeat

Posted on 2022/02/17 by Christadelphians

Iran has unveiled a terrifying new missile and give it a chilling name to taunt Israel. Images showing the long-range rocket being tested were broadcast on state television earlier this week. The weapon has a range of 900 miles, according to Iran, meaning it can hit US bases in the region and reach Israel. The missile has been dubbed the ‘Khaibar-buster’ by Tehran military chiefs, a reference to a medieval Jewish castle.

In 628CE, early Muslim warriors led by Muhammad overran the fortress and won a decisive military battle, cementing the reputation of the religion’s founder. With relations between Tel Aviv and Tehran at a low ebb after decades of hostilities, the provocative move will add to tensions in the region. Iranian media claimed the missile has high accuracy, is manufactured entirely on domestic soil and can evade defence systems.

It is interesting that Iran has named their new missile the Khaibar buster. Jews lived in Khaibar which was an oasis in modern day Saudi Arabia. A war was fought against them by muslims headed up by Mohammed which history says they won. Many muslims see this war as a foretaste of what will become of Israel. However, according to Jewish legend, the Jews of Khaybar remained in their territory and lived there as a nation of mighty warriors free from Muslim rule. Their fantastic survival in the desert attracted the attention of adventurers and travellers to the Orient from the twelfth century to modern times. Whatever the truth of that is we know with Bible in hand that the Jews will survive and Iran will never destroy Israel. In fact we are told that the pricking briers around Israel will be completely removed. All nations will one day worship at Jerusalem….

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you. (Zechariah 8:23)

Andy Walton

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Times of overcorrections

Posted on 2021/08/02 by Guestspeaker

This century may go into the history books by its aim to overcorrect.

Today we are not any more allowed to use lots of words which were quiet normal and not offensive in the previous century.

Today one has to be very careful how one wants to express oneself. Today several youngsters consider it transphobic if someone acknowledges biological sex.

A medical student revealed that she and her fellow trainee medics had access to an online forum where students can correct their professors for using gender-specific terms such as “male”, “female”, or “breastfeed” instead of gender-neutral terms like “chestfeed.”

The online forum allows students to “lodge their complaints in real time during lectures.”

The student recalled how one time a professor started crying because she “upset by students calling her out for using ‘male’ and ‘female’.”

“Wrongspeak” seems the word of the new wave where people find that everything should be considered as normal and possible. So when you are a man you may become pregnant as well and it would be considered sexist when one says only a woman can have a baby.
According to petitions in several countries included use of the pronouns “she” and “her” or the terms “father” and “son” are not acceptable and are “Wrongspeak”.

In several countries we also see people pulling down statues of very well known political and historical figures. But because they did something wrong it is considered not appropriate anymore that they would have a statute to honour them.

One is also not to speak about an Eskimo, Indian, hut, etc.. But the strangest might be the sex which may not be mentioned any more.

Katie Herzog, believes that our publishing houses, our universities, our schools, our non-profits, our tech companies — have embraced a Manichean ideology that divides people by identity and punishes anyone that doesn’t adhere to every aspect of that orthodoxy. In some of the top medical schools and hospitals in her country Katie Herzog found that there was a sort of revolution taking place. She thinks an ideological ‘purge’ is underway in American medicine.

“Wokeness,”

as one doctor put it,

“feels like an existential threat.”

Katie’s latest reporting illustrates some of the most urgent elements of that threat. It focuses on how biological sex is being denied by professors fearful of being smeared by their students as transphobic. And it shows how the true victims of that denial are not sensitive medical students but patients, perhaps most importantly, transgender ones.

Teachers now have to be very careful not to offend some one with saying “he” or “she”

During a recent endocrinology course at a top medical school in the University of California system, a professor stopped mid-lecture to apologize for something he’d said at the beginning of class.

His offense: using the term

“pregnant women.”

“I said ‘when a woman is pregnant,’

which implies that only women can get pregnant and I most sincerely apologize to all of you.”

In the context of their medical school

“acknowledging biological sex can be considered transphobic.”

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Dividing walls of “race”

Posted on 2020/07/16 by Guestspeaker

All human beings are created in the image of God. This makes that we are or should be, all accepting the other as being allowed to be here by God and to be co-images of God and ourselves.

The Divine Creator, Jehovah, the God above all gods, did not create more than one race. Of the kind that now usually walks on two legs, God created only one kind: a man taken from the red earth, hence his name “A·dham“.

Dr. George Gallant says

Racism, implies that our Creator made more then one race of people. There is but one race the human race. Get use to it people and stop using the word Racism. One Blood, One People, One set of Parents, Adam and Eve.

He has good reason to call for stopping to divide people in races or a sort of brands. We all come from the same original human beings, who probably were not white at all. The first man and mannin Adam and Eve (Chavah or Isha) got children and their children got again children and in the end we come from those children their children.

William D Tillman says

the majority of people have bought into the false construct of color/ethnicity equals – species (sic race). This is really a question of supremacy – white supremacy in particular. The dividing walls of “race” were erected to not only keep “the races pure” but to subjugate all to so-called white people. My real concern is how silent the church is on this.

“let no man think more highly of himself than he ought to think…”

is a principle that is espoused but today’s rhetoric indicates it’s one that rather needs to be lived. The statement,

“I don’t see race”

is another method to dismiss the systematic denigration and disenfranchisement of a whole sector of the population because it places the blame of perception of the suffering and relieves the “race-blind” of the guilt of apathy.

We always should remember we could be born in another region, another culture, or we could have been born with either lighter or darker skin, God chose what we are on the outside but the inside is the same. The inside is the most important factor of our being.

In the life and teaching of Jesus we nowhere can find that he had a particular predilection for a sort human being. The places he went to had Hebrew, Palestinian, Arab and other Eastern people walking around and also listening to him. Never gave he a sign to have a certain preference for or over one or the other person. In Jesus’ teaching is no such thing as racial preference. He teaches that all people are the same. Also for God everybody is equal and shall be equally judged.

As followers of Christ or Christians, we all should be like brothers and sisters and share that brotherly love with each other.

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