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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

1. Objectives of the book study

We began the study of the book Acts of the Apostles in order to understand certain important Christian truths, starting from the experience of the Primary Church . Our interest lies in learning something about:

a. the realism of the Church life

We could notice, even from the beginning of this book that the model of the Primary Church is a false ideal, from many points of view:

• since then the church had difficulties both internally and externally, it was not some naïve heaven;
• there were specific historical and cultural determinations (the Judaism, the Greek culture, etc.);
• there was a progress throughout history, made even by the apostles and the churches contemporaneous with them, but especially the subsequent progress which does not allow for a turning back in time.

b. the mode in which the Primary Church knew how to manage problems

If we can refer to a model of the Primary Church , the only possibility is to learn about how this community succeeded in solving its problems. In this direction, the apprenticeship and promotion of the Christian values in the world highlight as milestones, worthy of following.

c. the ecclesial models of the Primary Church

The Primary Church had to organize itself immediately after emergence. The fundamental idea which needs to be noticed here is the dynamism of the ecclesial structures and not the rigid formalism or the existence of one single absolute model.

d. the missionary spirit and the mission methods

The model of the Primary Church shows us that the mission is an implicit project of the Christian life. Just the fact of one being a Christian immediately results in mission. The presence of the Christian in the world is a visible, engaged mission not a hidden or double standards one. The Primary Church made contextual mission, depending on the place and time where it is found. It fully used all the time's instruments, from the cultural to the political, social and economic ones. That is why it had a major impact.

2. The Work of the Spirit and the confessional specific character

We began studying this book with a working hypothesis referred to by the most important theologians of the 20 th century; the Person and the Work of the Spirit were neglected in theology and in the Church practice, and the consequences thereto could be seen throughout the years. Maybe the most obvious consequence was the weakening of the current Christianity, visible in the evangelic space as well.

A reassessment of the place and role of the Holy Spirit in the divine economics has important implications on how we think and experience the Church life. Among these implications we mention:

• The Church life is a life according to the model of the Holy Trinity, namely a community life, in love and unity. In the Church, this life is created, maintained and lived by the Work of the Spirit;
• Coming to this life is a limit experience, a birth, a baptism which is fulfilled by the Work of the Spirit. The Spirit Baptism has to deal with the man regeneration, with the change of his existence mode, with coming out from under the power of the sin;
• An essential trait of the life in the Church, after the rebirth of man is that of making, growing up, according to the archetypal model of man - Christ. This is a pneumatological fulfillment, as everyone is given the appearance of the Spirit to the benefit of the other, namely towards growing up and maturity, towards the Church creation.

Iassy, 7 January 2006

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