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Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

Title:Discussions from a Christian Perspective
Notice:Prostitutes and tax collectors welcome!
Moderator:CSC32::J_CHRISTIE
Created:Mon Sep 17 1990
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1362
Total number of notes:61362

757.0. "Has God ever given you a mission?" by CSC32::J_CHRISTIE (Pacifist Hellcat) Wed Nov 10 1993 22:20

    Please share what you can with us.
    
    Peace,
    Richard
    
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757.1"My bounden duty as a Christian is..."COVERT::COVERTJohn R. CovertWed Nov 10 1993 22:357
God has given every Christian a mission:

	to follow Christ,
	to worship God every Sunday in his Church;
	and to work and pray and give for the spread of his kingdom.

/john
757.2CSC32::J_CHRISTIEPacifist HellcatWed Nov 10 1993 22:535
    .1  Thanks, /john.  I guess I had something a little less generic in
    mind for this topic.
    
    Peace,
    Richard
757.3CVG::THOMPSONWho will rid me of this meddlesome priest?Thu Nov 11 1993 12:208
    Yes, I feel that God has given me a specific mission to participate 
    in this conference.
    
    Also I feel that my second trip to Israel was made possible because
    God wanted me to spend time talking about Christianity to one
    particular Jewish person who attached himself to our group.
    
    			ALfred
757.4PeaceCSC32::J_CHRISTIEPacifist HellcatThu Nov 11 1993 18:4627
	"PEACE -- There is nothing in the world more valuable than peace,
and it is within each of us to choose it consciously."

	The above is a portion of the sentiment I found on a greeting
card.  Nearly twenty years ago, when I was younger and more foolish than
I am now, I prayed to God to give me a mission, to burden my heart with
a matter of which I would be worthy.  Instead, God called me to work
for peace.

	I did not expect God to answer me so quickly.  Within 24 hours of
my reporting for duty, I received a telephone call asking me to play an
integral role in a program which came to fruition during the 1970s entitled
"New Call to Peacemaking," a combined effort of the historic peace churches:
Mennonites, Friends (Quaker), and the Church of the Brethren.

	There have been other issues which have arisen and to which I've
responded.  But the Spirit of the Living Christ has always called me back
to the central issue of peace.

	I've learned a number of things, not the least of which is that
peace is not the absence of conflict.  Peace is more the absence of the
will to do another harm.  Peace is the recognition of the incalculable
intrinsic value and sacred worth of every human being born on Earth.
Peace is the presence of love.

Peace,
Richard
757.511SRUS::DUNNEFri Nov 12 1993 02:485
    Nice words on the meaning of peace, Richard.
    
    Eileen
    
    
757.6we're in trouble if NOTDLO15::FRANCEYSat Nov 13 1993 15:5713
We sure hope so!

	Shalom,

	Ron
                       <<< Note 757.5 by 11SRUS::DUNNE >>>

    Nice words on the meaning of peace, Richard.
    
    Eileen