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În biserica Străjerul, predicile din cadrul slujbei de duminică au rolul de a întregi tabloul unei experienţe liturgice specifice zilei de duminică, ziua Domnului.

Predicile se realizează structurat, pe cărţi ale Scripturii. Alegerea carţilor se face în funcţie de dinamica şi de nevoile comunităţii.

Prezentăm aici câte un sumar al predicilor din duminicile anterioare, în ideea că vor fi folositoare pentru cei care le citesc, dar şi ca o expresie a viziunii şi specificului comunităţii noastre. See archive.

 

Book „Acts of the Apostles” (Chap. 5:12 - 42)

The apostles’ sufferance and miracles

And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people (Acts, 5:12). By this verse, Luke emphasizes once again the idea that preaching, the Gospel Annunciation was not made by the art of speaking or by the arms of the world's wisdom but by the power of God. Thus the Lord's word fulfilled, according to which they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages and cure many sick people (Mark 16:17-18; Luke 10:19-20). One can always find permanent references to the power of God, accompanying in apostolic kerugma and showed by signs and miracles in the Facts and in the Pauline letters. Paul strongly asserts that the Gospel is the power of God (Romans 1:15-16) and His preaching is proven by evidence of the spirit as the faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God (1 Corinthians 2:4-5). Therefore, the call to repentance and redemption substantiates on the truth of the Living God which does not make his Work vain but preaches and brings the due results. The Spirit Word and the miracles performed by the apostles brought the crowd of Jerusalem, thus believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women” (Acts 5:14). The multitude came of the cities round about, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits.

Doubtlessly, such a success of the apostolic mission count not fail to start a negative reaction on part of the religious authority of Jerusalem. The great priest and the Sadducee Party „raised full of envy", caught the apostles and put them to prison. Later, referring to this situation, Clement the Roman noted in the Epistle to the Corinthians that „through envy and jealousy, the greatest and most righteous pillars of the Church have been persecuted and put to death".

The second arrest confirms the words of the Savior Who warned the apostles that they would throw them into jail and they would be brought before kings and governors because of His Name (Luke 21:12). From then on, the persecution would be, along with the manifestation of the divine power in signs and miracles, the other accompanying element of the evangelization from the early life of the Church.

We notice repeating of history reported in Acts 4:1-22. The accusers' motifs and the answers of those summoned to judgment are not only commune to the two events presented up to the chapter in question, but go throughout the entire history of the church in Jerusalem. The apostles were charged with spreading unacceptable preaching about Jesus and indicting the Temple priests for the Lord being crucified. In both invoked situations, the defense structured, by mouth of Peter around the idea of obeying God rather than men (Acts 4.19; 5::29), of God exalting Him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior and the power of His name (Acts 4:12; 5:31), of responsibility undertaking by the priests for having killed Jesus (Acts 4:10; 5:31) and of witnessing of these things which they participated to (Acts 4:20; 3:32). This form of defense-indictment, which „cut to the heart” of the Sadducee, led to an intensification of the reactions. If after the first arrest, the apostles were forbidden the preaching of Jesus, the same advice was accompanied, in the second case by a stroke with rods as a modality of humiliation, of public scorn. But the decision to physically eliminate them, postponed only by the intervention of the Pharisee named Gamaliel was already made. In witness thereof, a little later, Stephen and Jacob were the first victims of the religious persecution in Jerusalem.

From the afore said, the Work of God results in lasting by the power of the Holy Spirit and the power of man in mission consists of assuming the Jesus confession, of the self sacrifice and of the Christian responsibility.

Iassy, 25 February 2006

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