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What I believe in
- I believe in Jesus Christ who died for forgiveness of my sins and rose from death. This has always been the most important and always surprising part of Jesus's message to me.
- I accept the Christian Creed - Apostles Creed. I am happy to be Christian.
- But I believe the essence of Christianity is not declaring articles of faith without hesitation or doubt. The most important is to follow Jesus in His life style, in His love towards all neighbours, in His patience with others, in His willingness to serve and even to sacrifice, in His trust in God, in His simplicity, and with His blessing, sharing the good news of the Saviour with people around.
- The basement of my faith is the Bible. I believe God is using this book to talk to us and to show us His will, His indicators of good life. But I am aware I don't always understand His call immediately, I have to learn, study, listen to other ideas and pray for the Holy Spirit. There are texts which I have not yet comprehended, there might even be texts which I never will; there are passages which I understood somehow when I was seventeen, spoke newly when I was thirthy and tell me again something new nowadays. And I suppose there is still a lot to learn and to be surprised with.
- I believe God created everything with His Word. I don't think the account from Genesis wants to be a day-to-day chronicle of those events, I understand it as poetic expression of the fact there is nothing in this world that would not be made by God the Creator. And that means this world has its purpose and its goal; and even my life has a sense - in struggling to be the image of God as He meant me.
- I believe there is one Church of Christ, and many members of all different churches belong to it. It is not me (or us) who gives people place in Christs household and body. The institutional churches are very important, it is necessary for a Christian to accept responsibility for a concrete limb of Christ's body, for a concrete group of sisters and brothers. Jesus himself said: "I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd." He is the shepherd and we all belong to Him.
- I believe God hears and answers our prayers. Not automaticaly and not always in the way we would like Him to do it but He answers. The prayer is a dialogue - I have to approach it prepared not only to talk but also to listen; many time inspiration came this way. It is great privilege this immeasurable God want to talk to an ordinary person like me or any of us.
- I also believe we shouldn't keep quiet about our faith. Pressing people to change their beliefs or manipulating them is wrong and against God's will but if we have experienced something important with God, it is perfectly all right to share our witness with other people. We can't make them believe but we can inspire them to search for their own relationship to God.
- The first thing that caught me in Jesus's teaching even before I personally believed in God was the sermon on the mount in Mathew 5-7. I loved Jesus's extreme ethics: "love your enemies"... "if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."... "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them"... "Judge not, that you be not judged."... "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them" I thought: If all people kept all this, the whole world would be perfect. But why should I need God for it?
- So, I tried to implement these principles into my own life. And unfortunatelly I realized, I can't manage. I always slip somewhere. I just wasn't good enough to accomplish this. I was very depressed and thought I am good for nothing. And I began to pray for forgiveness to God whose existence I still doubted:-)
- Unexpected blow of inspiration led me to read Bible, not from the begining but from I. John's epistle. And to my great surprise I found there God knew everything about myself but still loved me and already forgave my sins two thousand years ago! The epistle is really persuasive and assuring on this topic. Then I jumped to Romans where I read excellent description of my own thoughts and depressions, I saw even apostle Paul felt like me (R 7,22-24): "I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am!"!!! But just a few lines later: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." and still a bit later: "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
- So, I was healed from the preoccupation with myself and since that time I know that I am sinner but justified by the sacrifice of my Lord, Jesus Christ.
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