tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27892671117068673692024-03-04T21:11:18.709-08:00Jane's logbookJane's logbook - Writings from life's journey / Carnet de routeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-39055368537390906382015-10-19T09:47:00.000-07:002015-10-21T09:37:44.638-07:00Cheminer vers l'autre - une bifurquation étonnanteJ'ai passablement écrit sur mon cheminement vers les personnes d'orientation homosexuelle. <br />
Aujourd'hui, je me trouve embarquée sur un autre chemin, celui vers mon prochain musulman. En fait, ce n'est pas tout à fait exacte de dire "je me trouve embarquée." Ce serait mieux de dire, je me suis trouvée propulsée devant un choix, par des circonstances de vie: aller <em>vers</em>, ou aller <em>contre</em> mon prochain musulman.<br />
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J'ai fait le choix d'aller vers lui/elle en commençant par un chemin de découverte de sa foi, de son livre sacré aussi. J'ai aussi fait le choix de partir avec, comme compagnons de route, des auteurs qui traite le sujet avec respect, ouverture et sérénité et non pas en réaction à l'E.I.<br />
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Alors, j'ai commencé avec le livre de Miroslav Volf: <em>Allah, a Christian response. (Allah, une réponse chrétien.) </em>Wolf écrit à partir d'un respect pour les musulmans qu'il a appris chez son père, pasteur pentecôtiste. <br />
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Wolf examine et argumente de façon rigoureuse pour répondre à la question, <em>Est-ce que musulmans et chrétiens croient au même Dieu?</em> Pour lui, ce n'est pas une question de "juste ou faux," mais d'en tirer les conséquences dans notre façon de vivre côte à côte. Pouvons-nous, au nom du même Dieu et au nom des deux plus grands commandements, appelés <em>le règle d'or, </em>oeuvrer ensemble dans le respect et la paix? Pour moi, ce livre tombe à pic pour l'Europe face aux vagues de réfugiés de la Syrie et de l'Iraq.<br />
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J'ai appris énormément dans ce cheminement. Parfois j'ai été fort surprise par certains faits historique. Par exemple: Volf fait référence au point de vue de Martin Luther, <em>pour qui la polarité n'est pas entre chrétiens d'un côté et musulmans de l'autre. Il s'agit plutôt d'une opposition entre, d'un côté, ceux qui ont une connaissance juste de la façon dont Dieu et l'homme peuvent vivre en relation et de l'autre, ceux qui n'ont pas cette connaissance ou pratique. Dans cette catégorie, pour Luther, se trouvaient la majorité des chrétiens, les musulmans, juifs etc.!</em><br />
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Autre fait étonnant<em>: Dans un sermon livré en 1544, Luther a félicité les Turcs d'avoir surpassé les chrétiens en faisant des œuvres de miséricorde, car les musulmans considère comme un crime honteux de ne pas partager son pain avec son prochain qui a faim. </em>A remarquer que Luther a dit ceci alors que l'armée turque venait d'assiéger Vienne et toute l'Europe tremblait devant elle!<br />
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Au prochain article, sur le même livre!<br />
Source: Allah, a Christian response, Miroslav Volf. HarperCollins 2011. Ch 3. My translation.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-50275829995888866882015-09-17T03:36:00.000-07:002015-09-17T03:36:07.914-07:00Au risque de me faire descendre 7: épithètesIl y aurait encore beaucoup à dire autour de mon sujet, mais en fait, l'essentiel sur la question "gay," c'est mon attitude, nos attitudes - gay, hétéros, chrétiens, athées...<br />
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Nos attitudes se traduisent, se laissent voir, par nos actions et nos mots. Je m'arrête pour cette dernière fois sur les mots. Quelle puissance émanent de nos mots! Avec un seul mot, une seule épithète, je peux détruire, blesser, relever, encourager, accueillir ou rejeter.<br />
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Avec un "homosexuel" ou un "homophobe", dit avec dédain, colère ou violence la guerre est entamée, les défences sont dressées, les oreilles sourdes et les coeurs fermés. Et cela ne va pas en se simplifiant maintenant que le sujet est devenu médiatisé et politisé. Je dois, en tant que citoyen responsable, voter au sujet de l'éducation sexuelle au niveau scolaire. Je n'ai pas envie que des jeunes qui luttent avec leur identité et se diraient gay soient stigmatisés. Il me semble que nous devons admettre que cela fait partie de la réalité. Mais je ne veux pas non plus que les relations sexuelles entre personnes du même sexe soient considérées comme étant tout simplement l'objet d'un choix personnel et que cela soit "la même chose" que les relations sexuelles entre un homme et une femme.<br />
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Rien qu'en disant cela, je sais que je cours le risque d'être appelée "homophobe." Mais ce mot veut dire quoi? Litéralement cela veut dire "peur du semblable." De nos jours on trouve la définition "quelqu'un qui est hostile aux homosexuels, ou à la homosexualité." (Petit Larousse enligne.) Cela veut dire quoi, être hostile? Pour moi cela veut dire: "vouloir du mal à quelqu'un". Le même dictionnaire dit, "qui se conduit en ennemi ou est aggressif." Je ne les combatis pas, je ne prends pas d'initiatives contre eux à quelque niveau que ce soit. Je parle en tant que citoyen qui a droit à la parole libre. Cela fait partie des droits de l'homme.Or, avec l'arrivé du <i>politiquement correcte, </i>ce droit fondamental qui est la base de toute discussion et entente, et bafoué parfois violemment pour ceux qui ne sont pas d'accord avec "la ligne". Contre cela je me bat. Faire taire l'opposition ne nous fait jamais avancer dans la fraternité humaine.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-8866288221902942952015-02-18T11:17:00.002-08:002015-02-18T11:17:15.425-08:00Pile ou face?Mon dernier blog était au sujet de la crucifixion "sculpté" dans le concret de nos vies. Ce n'est pas très joyeux, pensez-vous peut-être. Mais l'autre face de cette réalité, dont j'ai fait allusion, c'est la résurrection! J'ai parlé de la <i>présence </i>de Jésus dans nos vies, dans nos souffrances comme dans nos joies.Et c'est vrai, il faut avoir à l'esprit les deux côtés, les deux réalités: triomphe et humiliation, souffrance et santé, tristesse et joie, connaissance et foi. Mais comment saisir sa présence en plein tourbillon de détresse?<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b>Marc 8: 10, 14 à 17</b></span> - <span style="color: #444444;"> <b>Jésus vient de nourrir une foule de 4000 hommes +</b></span><br />
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<i>10 - "Aussitôt après, il monta dans la barque avec ses disciples et se rendit dans la région de Dalmanoutha... </i><i><span class="text Mark-8-15" id="fr-BDS-24537">Les disciples avaient oublié d'emporter du pain; ils n'en avaient qu'un seul avec eux dans la barque. <sup class="versenum"></sup>Or, Jésus leur recommanda:</span><br /><span class="text Mark-8-15">---Faites bien attention: gardez-vous du *levain des pharisiens et de celui d'*Hérode!</span></i></div>
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Les oiseaux qui viennent se nourrir au mangeoire de notre jardin savent que tous les matins, un homme sort pour y ajouter des graines ou suspendre un nouveau morceau de noix de coco... ils lui font confiance.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-83020041646562962762014-11-24T02:04:00.004-08:002014-11-24T02:24:03.209-08:00Savoir rester un moment à Gethsémani<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Je viens de terminer le livre de N.T.Wright intitulé: <i><b><span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.amazon.fr/gp/offer-listing/0830822003/ref=sr_1_15_twi_2_twi_2_olp?s=english-books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416819998&sr=1-15&keywords=N.T.+Wright" target="_blank">The challenge of Jesus</a>.</span></b> </i>On pourrait dire beaucoup de choses par rapport à ce livre, mais je m'arrêterai sur deux choses: l'attitude avec lequel écrit l'auteur, <i>de tout son <span lang="FR-CH" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">cœur</span> et de toute sa pensée</i>.<br />
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La deuxième a été inspiré par le dernier chapitre du livre: suivre Jésus-Christ, ce n'est pas seulement un appel à incarner une vie vraiement humaine, comme Jésus l'a fait, mais aussi à vivre l'appel à un chemin de croix: encore une fois, comme Jésus l'a fait. Ce n'est pas un chemin facile à entreprendre, car il nous amène en plein dans la souffrance de notre monde, de notre prochain et de nos proches.<br />
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Hier, dans<span style="color: orange;"> <b><a href="http://www.sacredspace.ie/daily-prayer/2014-11-23" target="_blank"><i>Sacred Space</i></a></b></span>, la méditation portait sur un texte bien connu dans Matthieu 25, dont je ne citerai qu'une partie...<br />
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<span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR-CH" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CH;">… Alors, les justes lui demanderont:</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR-CH" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CH;"><br />
<span class="text">«Mais, Seigneur, <b>quand t'avons-nous vu</b> avoir faim, et
t'avons-nous donné à manger? Ou avoir soif, et t'avons-nous donné à boire? Ou
étranger et t'avons-nous accueilli? Ou nu, et t'avons-nous vêtu?</span> Ou
malade ou prisonnier, et sommes-nous venus te rendre visite?»</span></i></div>
<span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Et le roi leur répondra:</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="text">«Vraiment, je vous l'assure: chaque fois que vous avez fait
cela au moindre de mes frères que voici, c'est à moi-même que vous l'avez
fait.»</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="text">Ce que j'ai pris de ce texte pour ma route, c'est que <b>Jésus s'identifie complètement avec les souffrants. </b></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="text"><b> </b></span></span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="text">En plus, si je veux le trouver, ce sera au milieu d'un monde qui souffre, ou à côté de quelqu'un qui souffre. Notre appel est d'accepter de <i>rester avec</i> dans le lieu de souffrance alors que tout en nous préfère se sauver.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="text"><i>Seigneur, aide-moi à te discerner dans ces lieux-là, dans ces personnes-là.</i></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-31251522029005218822014-11-12T12:29:00.000-08:002014-11-12T12:29:53.066-08:00Un brin de folie, s.v.p.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Il y a 10 jours, je suis tombée sur un blog intéressant par rapport à l'actualité. Il s'agit de <a href="http://www.questionsuivante.fr/?p=1089" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;"><i>Question suivante</i>, </span></a>et c'était au sujet de l'E.I. qui, jusqu'en juin cette année ne figurait sur aucun écran de radar du commun des mortels en occident. Je cite:<br />
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<i>Revenons à nos jeunes volontaires occidentalisés. Qu'ont-ils laissé derrière eux! Une société plutôt stable, la possibilité d'un emploi, une certaine intégration et un certain confort.</i> <i>Mais aussi...</i> <i>une société qui vit dans l'instant présent, la consommation, et une grande difficulté à construir un sens. On a coupé le rapport au passé... l'avenir est incertain et l'éternité hors de question.</i></div>
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<i>A l'inverse, l'EI propose un engagement collectif, une possibilité de changer le monde de manière durable, et des promesses d'éternité... Ce que cela doit nous apprendre, c'est qu'on ne peut pas sans risque évacuer tout discours sur le sens.</i></div>
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Flou<i>, </i>tolérance molle, passivité, tiédeur et assurances d'un côté; clarté, conviction, passion et action de l'autre. Du "risky living" quoi.</div>
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Quelques jours plus tard je participe à une journée de la FREE (Fédération romande des Églises évangéliques,) avec comme orateur Stuart Murray, dont le message pourrait se résumer à ceci: <i>se trouver en position de minorité est une chance pour l'Église, même si cela nous est peu confortable, car cela permettra un retour à l'essentiel et un retour à suivre Jésus-Christ de façon radicale, avec passion!</i></div>
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C'était un appel à innover, à expérimenter, à se lancer dans des chemins inconnus, en somme à prendre des risques pour sortir du carcan<i> </i> de la chrétiéneté et se mettre au diapason de la culture qui nous entoure. Ce message, les Églises de la FREE l'ont entendu de part et d'autre depuis plus de six ans. Cette année le thème a été lancé par Becky Pippert avec l'image parlante du sel HORS de la salière. Il me semble qu'on sait plein de choses sur le pourquoi et le comment "faire autrement."</div>
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Aujourd'hui, me semble-t-il, nous avons surtout besoin d'un brin de folie pour risquer une mise en pratique de tout ce savoir qui finalement commence à peser un peu lourd.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-75822658939543039552014-09-22T10:42:00.006-07:002014-09-23T05:15:30.402-07:00Le défi de l'Évangile face à l'EI et le terrorisme<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i> Traduction du blog:<span style="color: orange;"> 1 John, ISIS and the Gospel versus Terror,</span> de Alice Su, sur le GWBlog </i><br />
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<i>En effet, voici le message que vous avez entendu dès le commencement: aimons-nous les uns les autres. Que personne ne suive donc l'exemple de Caïn... Mes frères, ne vous étonnez donc pas si le monde a de la haine pour vous. <br />Quant à nous, nous savons que nous sommes passés de la mort à la vie parce que nous aimons nos frères. Celui qui n'aime pas demeure dans la mort. Car si quelqu'un déteste son frère, c'est un meurtrier, et vous savez qu'aucun meurtrier ne possède en lui la vie éternelle.</i></div>
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Ces derniers temps, j’ai peur. Je pense aux meurtres de
James Foley, Steven Sotloff, et beaucoup d’autres journalistes et des millions
d’enfants, de femmes, d’hommes, de frères, d’oncles, de meilleurs amis, de
voisins ; en Syrie, au Gaza, en Iraq, en Egypte, au Soudan et encore. Je
ne peux pas m’empêcher de sentir que la mort se tasse à ma porte, au coin de la
rue, sur le pas de la porte de tous les journalistes, de tous les civiles, de
trop de personnes qui me sont devenues chères, et des milliers que j’ai encore
à rencontrer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tous ceux que je connais
portent des blessures profondes. La haine et la peur sont dans l’air et les
choses sont en train de s’empirer.</div>
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Comment les chrétiens réagissent-ils au terrorisme ? </div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Aime ton prochain et prie pour ceux qui te
persécutent. - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vraiment ?...</i> <br />
Je prie en colère à la fin de chaque journée ; pourquoi le monde est-il si
sombre, et moi je ne peux rien faire pour y remédier ? Je n’ai rien à
donner à mes amis…</div>
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Et puis une pensée traverse mon esprit : <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tu as l’Evangile, habibti*</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Qu’est-ce que
l’Evangile ?</i> Que peut-il contre tant de mal ? Il ne promet aucun
changement dans les circonstances de mes amis.</div>
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Je lis beaucoup la Bible ces jours-ci. Et plus je la lis,
plus radicale elle m’apparaît. Le message de la Bible signifie une vie avec
Dieu, qui implique un changement complet: vivre dans l’amour à la place de la
haine ou de la peur.</div>
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« <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Voici à quoi
ressemble l’amour : Jésus Christ a donné sa vie à notre place. Nous devons
donner nos vies pour nos frères. » 1 Jn 3 :16</i></div>
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Aimer plutôt que haïr ou craindre.</div>
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Aimer : se sacrifier, penser aux autres avant moi-même,
renoncer à la vie pour le bien de ceux qui<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>veulent nous tuer…</div>
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Ces mots, je les ai vus brodés sur des coussins et des
cartes de vœux, et<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lancés en l’air dans
des milliers de sermons. Je me trouve maintenant en train de regarder une vidéo
faite par des êtres humains à quelques heures de distance de moi. Un homme,
vêtu en orange est agenouillé par terre à côté d’un autre homme en cagoule qui
le force à prononcer des mots qu’il ne veut pas dire… et puis il lui tranche la
tête, la tête de son frère humain.</div>
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Je pense à Caïn et Abel.<br />
Je pense à Jésus.<br />
Je me dis, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">être chrétien veut dire que je
donne ma vie pour cet homme en cagoule ?<br />
</i>Je me dis, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ça n’a aucun sens.</i></div>
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Dernièrement je trouve le message de l’Évangile choquant. Si
tu prends Christ au mot, voici ce qu’il dit : « Donne ta vie pour ton
frère. Donne ta vie pour celui qui veut te tuer. N’entre pas dans la violence
en retour. Ne t’enfuis pas. Bénis, sers et donne.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mais je pourrais mourir,
</i>je me dis.<br />
<i>Oui - donne ta vie et renais</i>, me répond le Christ.</div>
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Je réplique :<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
mais non, je veux dire, je pourrais mourir, physiquement.<br />
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mourras. C’est OK.<br />
</i>Moi : <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Non, je ne mourrai pas !<br />
</i>Christ : <i>Regarde autour de toi.</i></div>
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Je ne sais pas comment, mais pendant que je prie je deviens
convaincue que Dieu n’est pas contre nous mais Il est POUR nous. Le monde
brûle, mais c’est parce que nous sommes contre nous-mêmes. Me soumettre à Dieu
veut dire se sacrifier ; ce n’est pas le jihad, mais c’est comprendre que
Dieu vaut plus que ma vie… Et si cela est vrai, alors je meurs. Je donne ma vie
entière, comme il l’a fait lui-même. Non pas comme un guerrier, mais comme un
agneau. Nous devons donner nos vies à nos frères et sœurs pour qu’ils ne se
sentent pas seuls, pour qu’ils puissent espérer encore…</div>
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Je les vois avancer comme des brebis pour être abattus, et
je prie : <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seigneur, donne-moi la grâce
et le courage de faire pareil.</i></div>
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L’Evangile nous appelle à mourir ; non pas pour faire
descendre d’autres, mais pour les élever. Cela n'a pas de sens. Cela ne t'offre aucune sécurité, mais c’est la façon du Christ. Quand nous savons cela,
quand nous le goutons, nous avançons dans la joie sur un fleuve qui coule de
Lui à travers nous vers les autres. Nous nous sentons tellement vivant, même si
nous mourons demain, ou après-demain.</div>
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Nous n’avons pas peur.</div>
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parole de Dieu qui a été le moyen pour Alice de s’inspirer de Christ et de
puiser dans sa force d’amour. Des milliers de personnes n’en ont pas la
possibilité ; la Parole n’est pas encore traduite dans leur langue.
<a href="http://fr.wycliffe.ch/wycliffe-suisse/" target="_blank">Contribuer à ce que cela change, c’est un moyen de semer l’espoir dans ce monde qui brûle.</a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-28701972332332701242014-08-18T06:15:00.004-07:002014-08-18T06:48:16.565-07:00Thoughts on identity<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Father & daughter</td></tr>
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I have just read the latest post from my daughter's blog on this very subject. I started a reply, & before I knew it, I was writing something as long as a blog post. So it occurred to me that I might just as well post it!<br />
By way of introduction, I am a TCK (Third Culture Kid) myself. Not a mish kid, as my daughter is, but a bizz kid (Business Kid). I grew up in West Africa, then went to boarding school in England for 11 years. However, the questions & issues that both experiences throw up are very, very similar. My daughter asks in her blog "where do I belong?" <br />
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I'm not sure that there is AN answer, nor am I sure that you
can make it happen, this feeling of belonging. It's a process that you go through at your own speed. For years & years, when people asked me where I came from I would answer, "from my parents." And it bugged me frequently that I couldn't name a place, a town, a country.</div>
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But I
remember that moment, in a <a href="http://www.prayercounselling.com/counselling/introduction.php" target="_blank">Prayer Counseling</a> week a few years ago, when Sister Elizabeth
looked at me & said, "now I will share with you what the team received
from God, for you, before the week began"... (I was totally intrigued,
waiting with bated breath - for goodness sakes, these people had received stuff <i>for me</i>, a stranger!) Then she started. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcSnfEGk78ZusqRpuxWFnfbfzmPhEEoeRbZhX9axqBBbefvIs9qoY-HgFTmoqm838MhHANU4UBZhrP4tGh56DKASLhErF66UPehffv81y9UrrFx0rOTJJq7Z_xpszx1GfUJVlfuLgKWuI/s1600/Healing+waters_St.Loup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>"The first is a word from
Isaiah: <b><i>Your exile is over.</i></b>" Before she could finish asking me how that
related to me, I had burst into tears... a very deep torrent of healing tears
that welled up from deep within me. And I knew in a flash, just knew it... my
home was in God. I had come home.<br />
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It didn't matter any more that on earth my home was linked to
people, & that I couldn't really pin down a place. And that realization gave
me such peace. Curiously, 2 years later I looked up at the lower gate into La
Neuveville, where we had lived for 19 years on coming here from Africa, & a
surprising thought went through my head: "I belong here." And I
really felt it, in spite of the fact that people often remind me that I have
such a charming, just a very <i>slight </i>English accent!<br />
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Three weeks ago, we moved away from La
Neuveville, & the funny thing is that I don't feel at all uprooted. I feel
that I belong right where we are now living! And although La Neuveville feels familiar & friendly, I've moved on. Yet as we were preparing to move, I often thought of that phrase from the
epistle to the Hebrews: "Here we have no continuing city...". That bugged me because I thought it meant that God would not allow anywhere on this earth to feel home to me. But, interestingly enough, that's not what happened. I do feel right at home.</div>
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Perhaps, when we come to realize that our only real home is in God, then we are capable of having several "homes" without it disturbing us. Maybe because we take "Home" with us, wherever we go?<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-4023614091230220442014-06-11T03:04:00.001-07:002014-06-11T05:45:53.070-07:00Pratiquons-nous la mission de façon athée ?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Je viens de lire un article décoiffant dans la revue <i>Evangelical Missions Quarterly</i> qui pose cette question-là. L'auteur, Cody Lorance, travaille avec le <i>Global Diasporas Network </i>près de Chicago, E.U. Cela ne promet rien de spectaculaire, êtes-vous en train de penser? Je vous cite quelques éléments que, je pense, vont vous faire changer d'avis.<br />
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"Dans quelle mesure pouvons-nous, responsables de mssion, dire aujourd'hui que si Dieu ne garde pas ses promesses, nos plans et nos efforts vont complètement échouer? Avons-nous créé des stratégies avec sureté intégrée qui nous permettent d'atteindre nos buts même si nos prières ne sont pas exaucées, même si Dieu ne fait rien d'extraordinaire? Dans la pratique de la mission aujourd'hui, sommes-nous devenus des athées fonctionnels?"<br />
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Même si l’article est écrit aux responsables d’agences missionnaires, ces trois questions me paraissent d’une importance capitale pour nos Églises en Suisse romande, tous courants confondus. <br /><br />Hier j’ai participé à une journée de conférences par le docteur N.T. Wright à l’Université de Fribourg intitulée Paul et sa théologie dans son contexte historique. En répondant à une question sur la place de la mission dans les écrits de Paul, il a relevé le fait qu’il en dit très peu ! Par contre, la vie radicalement différente à laquelle il a appelé les chrétiens de l’Église primitive, (comme conséquence de leur appartenance à un nouveau monde et une nouvelle alliance,) était si remarquable aux yeux de leurs contemporains – même leurs pires ennemis – que l’Église a grandi de façon exponentielle, en dépit de la persécution ! <br /><br />Pour des livres de N.T. Wright / Tom Wright en français, voir<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.fr/J%C3%A9sus-retour-sources-vision-r%C3%A9volutionnaire/dp/2911260635/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402480347&sr=1-4&keywords=Tom+Wright" target="_blank"><span lang="FR">Jésus, retour aux sources</span></a></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-84607524276745966522014-05-28T05:10:00.000-07:002014-05-28T05:12:00.597-07:00Etre centré sur Christ - comment le vivre?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span class="text">Aujoud'hui ja' dû me préparer en vue de présenter un projet aux anciens de ma communauté. Je vous livre ma réflexion, qui soutient une proposition de démarche concrète...</span><br />
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<i><span class="text">Moi, je suis le bon berger; je connais mes
brebis et mes brebis me connaissent… J'ai encore d'autres brebis qui ne sont
pas de cet enclos. Celles-là aussi, il faut que je les amène; elles écouteront
ma voix, ainsi il n'y aura plus qu'un seul troupeau avec un seul berger. Jean
10 : 14, 16</span></i></div>
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<i><span class="text">Comme des bergers, prenez soin du troupeau
de Dieu qui vous a été confié… soyez les modèles du troupeau. 1Pi 5:2</span></i></div>
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<span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TheSansB W5 Plain","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Centré pour le connaître</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TheSansB W5 Plain","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Sans se plonger
dans la Parole, on ne peut pas le connaître, on ne peut pas </span></span><span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TheSansB W5 Plain","sans-serif";">le découvrir</span></span><span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TheSansB W5 Plain","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">. Sans le connaître, on ne peut
pas reconnaître sa voix. Sans le connaître on ne peut pas avoir une vision
juste de Dieu. Sans le connaître on ne peut pas le suivre. Le connaître, c’est
découvrir ce que cela veut dire d’être pleinement humain. Jésus-Christ est
notre modèle.</span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TheSansB W5 Plain","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Le suivre, c’est
mourir à soi-même, c’est prendre sa croix. Suivre Jésus-Christ, c’est nous
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va. Suivre Jésus-Christ, c’est voir les choses de son point de vue. Le suivre
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<span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TheSansB W5 Plain","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">La mission de
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nous habite pour nous permettre de le connaître et de le suivre. L’affaire de
Dieu, c’est de chercher et de sauver ceux qui se perdent parce qu’ils ne le
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<span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TheSansB W5 Plain","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Les disciples
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<span class="MsoSubtleEmphasis"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "TheSansB W5 Plain","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">BUT : Mettre des pieds à
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C’est ce que j’ai lu sur la valise noire de la jeune dame
devant moi, en entrant hier dans le monorail de l’aéroport de Gatwick me rendre
au terminal sud pour ma correspondance à Newquay.</div>
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Pendant le vol précédant, entre Genève et Gatwick, je venais de lire un
article de journal sur l’introduction délibérée mais subliminale de la théorie
du genre dans les écoles en Suisse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Je
cite : « Il n’est jamais question de la théorie du genre, mais il
s’agit d’une propagande qui, sous couvert de l’égalité, va jusqu’à éliminer
toute différence entre garçons et filles. »<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Et à un enseignant de dire : <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">« Oui – à des programmes de prévention
sur le respect, le mobbing ou la différence religieuse. Non – lorsque l’école, au
nom de la prévention contre l’homophobie, se met au service d’une doctrine…
les cours d’éducation sexuelle peuvent informer, mais pas diffuser des idées.»*</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></div>
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Je trouve plus
dangereux encore ces paroles de la sénatrice Laurence Rossignol : <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">« les enfants n’appartiennent pas à
leurs parents : » </i>Sous-entendu: ils appartiennent à l'école? Parce que les parents sont biaisés mais pas
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Nous sommes en train de vivre une époque où, au nom de la tolérance
– c’est-à-dire la tolérance pourvu que ce soit <i>politiquement correcte</i>, il n’est plus toléré
de ne pas être d’accord. Nous pouvons afficher notre différence quand il s’agit
de valises, ou de parfums, ou de vêtements (quoique, la mode est assez dictateur…) mais <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">plus dans la pensée</i>. En fait, nous sommes en train de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tuer</i> la tolérance et d'annuler le droit à la liberté d'expression et de pensée pour lesquelles tant de nos ancêtres ont lutté.</div>
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Sommes-nous, en fait, <b><i>à un pas de régimes totalitaires</i></b> en Europe?</div>
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de « Christianisme Aujourd’hui. »</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: orange;">DARE TO BE DIFFERENT! </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">That's what I read on the black suitcase of the young lady just ahead of me as we boarded the monorail for the South Terminal at Gatwick airport where i was to take another flight, to Torquay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During the preceding flight, from Geneva to Gatwick, I had been reading an article about the deliberate, but well disguised introduction of the Gender Theory into our Swiss compulsory school system. I quote: "It's never overtly a question of the Gender Theory, but rather a question of propaganda which, beneath the cover of "equality", aims to eliminate any & all differences between girls & boys." One teacher puts it this way: "YES - to prevention programs to promote respect, fight mobbing & victimizing racial differences. NO - when schools adopt a doctrine, in the name of the prevention of homophobia... sexual education at school should inform, but not diffuse ideologies."*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I find the remark of the senator, Laurence Rossignol, even more dangerous: "Children do not belong to their parents." The implication being that they belong to the school? And that parents are biased but not schools?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It seems to me that we are at a time when in the name of tolerance - that is tolerance that accepts only <i>the politically correct,</i> it is no longer tolerated to not agree! We can dare to be different in the choice of our suitcases, our perfume & our clothes (although fashion is pretty dictatorial... ) but <i>no longer in our thoughts. </i>We are, in fact, in the process of killing tolerance & of cancelling out freedom of speech & thought for which our ancestors fought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Are we, in Europe, <b><i>but one step from totalitarian regimes?</i></b></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-223807653876366012014-03-20T08:07:00.001-07:002014-03-20T08:10:42.836-07:00Faux se méfier de dames "d'un certain âge! "Je continue, en fait, là où j'ai terminé le dernier blog... Dieu se plaît à travailler à travers ma faiblesse, ma dépression. Il se plaît aussi, semblait-il, de se servir de dames "d'un certain âge" comme on le dit poliment. Là aussi je m'y retrouve! Mais tout d'un coup je pense à quelqu'un de beaucoup plus connue que moi et qui a eu un impacte absolutment remarquable dans sa vieillesse: <span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: orange;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cfp51vLZb4" target="_blank">Corrie Ten Boom.</a></span> </span>dans ce clip vidéo, Corrie a 80 ans! 80! Citation du jour de Corrie...<br />
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<b>"There's never a panic in heaven"/ "Au ciel, on ne panique jamais."</b><br />
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Puis ce matin, dans le train, je suis en train de lire un journal chrétien anglais, <i>Inspire, </i>et voilà l'histoire de Julie Ashby-Simmons qui est convaincue qu'à 51 ans, elle est trop vieille pour s'impliquer dans quelque chose de missionnaire. (Alors moi, à 61, c'est fait quoi?) Et pourtant, d'une manière qui ne se discute pas, Dieu la désigne du doigt! Aujourd'hui, elle est assistante personnelle au directeur des communications et au directeur des relations extérieures auprès de Wycliffe UK - en l'occurence la contrepartie anglaise de l'organisation dans laquelle je travaille, <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://fr.wycliffe.ch/index.php?id=368" target="_blank">Wycliffe Suisse</a></span>. Là, je n'ai pas pu m'empêcher de rire!<br />
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Je me retrouve encore une fois avec St. Ignace: <i><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Il ya</span> <span class="hps">très peu de gens</span> <span class="hps">qui se rendent compte</span> <span class="hps">de ce que Dieu</span> <span class="hps">ferait</span> <span class="hps">d'eux s'ils</span> <span class="hps">s'abandonnaient</span> <span class="hps">dans ses</span> <span class="hps">mains</span>, <span class="hps">et</span> <span class="hps">se laissaient former</span> <span class="hps">par sa grâce</span><span class="">.</span><span class="">"</span></span></i><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="">J'ai envie de le transformer un peu pour dire: <i>Il y a </i></span></span><i><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="">très peu de gens qui se rendent compte de ce que Dieu ferait <u>à travers d'eux</u>, </span></span></i><i><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">s'ils</span> <span class="hps">s'abandonnaient</span> <span class="hps">dans ses</span> <span class="hps">mains</span>, <span class="hps">et</span> <span class="hps">se laissaient former</span> <span class="hps">par sa grâce</span><span class="">.</span></span></i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-69778621850975756252014-03-05T12:15:00.003-08:002014-03-05T12:16:08.396-08:00Un week-end "aha!"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Fin janvier, début février, j’ai vécu un week-end
complètement hallucinant : vendredi et samedi je traduisais Becky Pippert <i>(Out
of the Saltshaker)</i> lors de sa conférence à Emmaüs sur l’évangélisation;
dimanche on me demande de donner le message dans deux cultes en faisant
référence à mon livre,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>« Je prends
des antidépresseurs, Dieu Merci ! »</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ne me regarde pas, sinon je vais rater!</td></tr>
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Traduire Becky, qui vit et a reçu le même message que moi,
c’était tout simplement la joie ! Faire découvrir
Jésus en devenant semblable à lui, non seulement dans notre « être »
mais dans le « faire », c’est-à-dire, avec son attitude, en étant juste des êtres humains <i>normaux</i>. Peut-être que le point
central de cette incarnation de Jésus en, et à travers de, nous, <b>c’est que cela
se passe dans notre faiblesse. </b>Car ce n’est que dans la réalisation et l'acceptation que nous sommes faibles que nous comptons
réellement sur Dieu pour agir dans l'autre et à travers nous.</div>
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Enchaîner en parler de mon expérience de la dépression, sur vingt-sept
ans, et mon besoin d’antidépresseurs à long terme, c’était parler de ma
faiblesse. Et alors que je parlais pour la 3<sup>ème</sup> fois ce
dimanche du 2 février, je me suis rendu compte que ces deux messages que
j’apportais le même week-end n’en faisait qu’un : Hallucinante révélation ! Dieu se plaît à se révéler à d'autres à travers moi, <i>avec </i>ma dépression, <i>avec </i>mes failles. Je n'ai pas besoin "d'être à la hauteur" - juste d'être vrai.</div>
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Cette semaine, dans <a href="http://www.unmomentsacre.com/" target="_blank">"mon moment sacré" </a>j'ai lu l'histoire d'enfants qui découvrent pour la première fois comment faire des petits gâteaux (<i>cup cakes</i>). En humant l'odeur délicieuse qui sortait du four, l'un d'eux se penche pour regarder à travers la vitrine et dit: <i>Purée! On y met de la pâte sans forme et ce sont des gâteaux qui en sortent</i> !<br />
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Peut-être une image pour parler de ce que Dieu peut faire avec moi, si je veux bien?</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-69230915720463870192014-01-04T09:45:00.004-08:002014-01-07T01:40:48.188-08:00At the risk of being shot down... last post for now<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]-->As I have journeyed along the path to understanding one
particular gay person, and gays in general, I have learnt an awful lot, & I
have been changed.What I fundamentally believe has not changed, but what that means has, & above all, my attitudes have been challenged & changed.<br />
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Where the rubber hits the road is whether any of us recognizes that our relationships are never perfect, always marred by us wanting to call the shots & not God.
Am I willing to let Him help me find the way back, or onwards, to Him in the
first instance, & then in my relationships? I believe that God can heal our
distorted personalities, identities & relationships, & that He longs to
do so. But it is humiliating for us to realize that we need this, & that
above all intimacies, we need intimacy with Him.</div>
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What has struck me with force as I studied yet again during
advent, the texts that tell us the story of God coming to us in the person of
Jesus of Nazareth, was how two very ordinary, lowly people, Joseph & Mary,
were willing to accept God’s irruption into their lives. They chose to allow
Him to change their short-term plans & their long term personal stories for
ever. And because of that, they allowed God to unfold His age long plan to
rescue us human beings from our headlong rush to ruin.</div>
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And so I finish my first post in 2014 by repeating the quote
from St. Ignatius of Loyola…</div>
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<i>"</i><i>There are very few people who realize
what God would make of them if they abandoned themselves into his hands,
and let themselves be formed by his grace."</i></div>
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I find that an enticing risk. What about you<br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Au risque de ma faire descendre: dernier mot pour le moment</span> </h2>
Sur mon cheminement pour comprendre une personne gay en particulier, et les gays tout court, j'ai beaucoup appris, et surtout, j'ai subi des changements. Non pas des changements dans ce que je crois, mais plutot des changements dans le sens de ce que je crois et au-dessus de tout, des changements dans mes attitudes.<br />
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Là où le bat blesse, c'est dans la façon dont nous voyons nos relations avec les autres, famille, amis etc. Suis-je prête à reconnaître que toutes ont des failles, qu'aucune ne soit pas parfaite, toujours tâchée comme elle est par ma volonté de ne faire qu'à ma tête, sans référence à Dieu. Suis-je d'accord de faire appel à Lui pour m'aider à retrouver le chemin, vers Lui en premier lieu, et dans mes relations? Je crois que Dieu peut guérir nos personnalités, nos identités, nos relations, et qu'Il n'attend que de faire cela. Mais c'est un peu humiliant, n'est-ce pas, de nous rendre compte que nous en avons besoin! Et qu'au-dessus de toutes relations intimes, c'est l'intimité avec Dieu dont nous avons besoin.<br />
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Ce qui m'a frappée dans ma relecture des textes bibliques qui racontent l'histoire de Dieu qui descend, et qui vient vers nous en la personne de Jésus de Nazareth, c'est le fait que deux personnes, à premier abord tout ordinaires, tout pauvres, aient accepté que Dieu fasse irruption dans leurs vies. Ils ont choisi de Lui permettre de changer leurs plans à court terme et leurs histoires personnelles à longue terme, à tout jamais.Et grâce à cela, ils ont permis à Dieu de mettre en action son plan de venir à la rescousse de l'humanité dans sa course entêtée vers la ruine.<br />
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Alors je termine mon premier post de la nouvelle année en répétant St.Ignace de Loyola...<br />
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<i> <span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Il ya</span> <span class="hps">très peu de gens</span> <span class="hps">qui se rendent compte</span> <span class="hps">de ce que Dieu</span> <span class="hps">ferait</span> <span class="hps">d'eux s'ils</span> <span class="hps">s'abandonnaient</span> <span class="hps">dans ses</span> <span class="hps">mains</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">et</span> <span class="hps">se laisser former</span> <span class="hps">par sa grâce</span><span class="">.</span><span class="">"</span></span></i></div>
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="">Je trouve ce risque tentant. Et vous?</span></span><i><span class="" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class=""> </span></span></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-47753376720582141912013-06-25T02:56:00.003-07:002013-08-05T08:05:12.417-07:00Au risque de... 5: Qu'aimerait, donc, Dieu?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Il s'agit de Genèse ch.1 verset 26, 27 et Genèse 2 verset 24; paroles que
Jésus reprend quand il a été questionné au sujet du divorce par rapport à la
loi juive, la Torah. Jésus répond en leur disant:<i> N'avez-vous pas lu ce que
déclare l'Écriture? </i>Ainsi il les renvoie à un texte qui <u>précède </u>la
Torah, et qui <u>précède </u>la formation du peuple hébreux, donc à un texte
d'envergure transculturelle et pour tous les temps, qui exprime le désir de
Dieu pour tous les peuples. Il est aussi important de noter que Jésus reprend
ce texte dans un contexte de divorce, d'adultère et <u>de mariage, ainsi nous
permettant de comprendre que le texte de la Genèse s'y réfère aussi.</u><br />
<br />
<b><i>Et Dieu dit: Faisons les hommes pour qu'ils soient notre image</i></b>,<b><i>
ceux qui nous ressemble.</i></b>.. <b><i>Dieu créa les hommes pour qu'ils
soient son image... Il les créa homme et femme.</i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>C'est pourquoi un homme se séparera de son père et de sa mère et
s'attachera à sa femme, et les deux ne feront plus qu'un.</i></b><br />
<br />
Je constate les choses suivantes:<br />
<b><i> </i></b>- Les hommes, les êtres humains, sont l'image d'un Dieu
communautaire: <i>Fais<u>ons</u>... <u>notre </u>image</i>. Le Dieu de la Bible
est "trois en un" et si les trois personnes sont "un," ils
sont aussi distinctes: Père, Fils, Saint Esprit.<br />
- Dieu désire que nous lui ressemblions. Et je note que dans les
versets qui précèdent la citation du ch 2 de la Genèse, ce Dieu créateur <i>voit
qu'il n'est pas bon pour l'homme d'être seul,</i> en tant qu'être masculin. Il
en prend note et agit en conséquence, en créant <i>un vis-à-vis</i> pour lui,
semblable, mais non pas identique - <b><i>'ish</i></b> et<b><i> 'ishah</i></b>;
<u>un, mais différent</u>...<b><i> </i></b>comme les trois personnes de la Trinité? Il ne dit pas à <b><i>'ish</i></b> de s'unir avec un autre 'ish.<br />
- Et ce que Dieu veut, c'est que <b><i>'ish et 'ishah</i></b>
deviennent une nouvelle réalité symbolisée et vécue corporellement par l'acte
sexuel, culturellement et socialement en créant une unité séparée de celle des
parents, et spirituellement parce que le "les deux ne feront plus
qu'un" fait une nouvelle entité, <i>le couple</i>, ou la personne
conjugale. <u>Et cela, nous dit ce texte, était voulu de Dieu pour notre bien. </u>Ce
n'était pas pour nous limiter, pour nous appauvrir; au contraire, c'était pour
notre épanouissement, notre bien, ce qui n'est pas la même chose que facilité! Ah non!<br />
<br />
English below.<br />
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Sorry to all who read my blog! I ran out of time before leaving for England. </div>
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I guess I could summarize the French by saying that instead of lining up texts against same sex relationships, I prefer to look at things from the positive angle, hence the title: What would God <i>like</i>, rather than What does God <i>not </i>like. </div>
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To do that I go back to the foundational texts of the Bible, those which speak of <i>why God made us, </i>and <i>how he viewed us</i>.</div>
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<i>God said, "let's make people, so that they resemble us; so that they be the image of us." God made people so that the were the image of Himself. He created them man and woman.</i>.. <i>That is why a man leaves his father and mother, and attaches himself to his woman in such a way as to become one with her.</i> (My translation!)</div>
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<b> - God is a community:</b> "let US make people..." Father, Son and Spirit are one person, yet distinct as well, which is why there are three distinct names - which carry meaning as to their roles. People, you and I, everyone, is made to resemble this communal God, which makes God's statement, <i>It's not good for man to be alone," </i>resonate all the more deeply.<i> </i></div>
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<b> - God desires, wants, us to resemble Him: and in the same way, the human being is created man & wo-man, the same, yet different - '</b><i>ish</i><b> </b>and '<i>ishah</i><b>.</b> God does not create another <i>'ish</i> to be one person with 'ish. And I think to myself: God probably knew what He was doing, being God. I mean, He <i>knew </i>by experience that it was "good" to be a community so close that the members of it are totally at one with one another.</div>
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<b>- the unity of 'ish and 'ishah is emodied in their being physically united in the sexual act.</b> To be sure, being one with another being is not only a sexual thing, but the sexual act embodies unity of purpose & unity of heart. Man and Wo-man become a new person, a conjugal person, a separate familial & social unit.</div>
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I don't know <i>why </i>God did things this way. <i>But we learn from these texts that God wanted things this way for our good. </i>And as we surely all know that what is for our good, and the good of others, is not necessarily<i> the easiest way.</i></div>
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<b>This is a call for trust in God. </b>A robust trust, that the likes of Alex Tylee can testify to, because it can be damned hard, trusting that God is good in wanting something other than what we want, or what we don't want to let go of.</div>
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<b>Il y a très peu de personnes qui se rendent compte de ce que Dieu ferait d'eux si seulement ils s'abondonnaient entre ses mains et se laissaient modeler par sa gràce. </b><b>St. Ignace de Loyola</b></h4>
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Comme je ne suis ni scientifique, ni au dernier fait des diverses expériences scientifiques, je préfère citer Alex Tylee*, auteur gay et chrétienne, car elle a fait des recherches sérieuses pour son livre dont elle cite abondamment. En plus, je la trouve remarquable pour son absence de "vouloir trouver ce qu'elle a envie d'y trouver!"<br />
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"<i>Autant que j'aimerais adopter le consensus du "né gay" (ce serait très avantageux politiquement), je ne peux pas. L'évidence ne soutient pas l'idée que la sexualité soit un fait biologique immuable.</i> [Peter Tatchell, dans l'hébdomadaire, The Guardian du 28 Juin 2006.] Jusqu'à aujourd'hui, toutes les recherches pour trouver une base génétique pour l'orientation sexuelle des hommes et des femmes ont manqué dans au moins un des cinq critères pour une étude génétique. Nous ne pouvons pas, néanmoins complètement balayer ces résultats, car ils veulent dire qu'il y ait <i>peut-être un élément </i>d'influence génétique sur l'orientation sexuelle.<br />
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Dans ce domaine il est important de rester humble et ouvert à de nouvelles recherches et de nouvelles idées. Un article scientifique, <i>Nucleus</i>, le résume très bien: <i>il est facile d'aborder la recherche scientifique avec des préconcéptions</i>. <i>La tentation existe toujours de vouloir lire les résultats de façon séléctive pour nous réconforter dans nos convictions." </i>P. 49, 50. <b>Et cela est autant vrai pour des personnes gay ou pas, chrétiennes ou pas.</b> Nous, "le public," devons nous rendre compte, selon cette même citation, que des scientifiques et des journalistes, par exemple, nous assomment de faits et de statistiques avec peu de preuves à l'appui, pour satisfaire leur agenda politique. Et nous les gobons tout rond!<br />
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Et pour conclure, je cite encore Alex Tylee en parlant de toute orientation ou disposition avec laquelle on est né, ou qu'on acquière: <i>il est important d'avoir compassion pour quelque chose qu'une personne ne peut pas maitriser, tout en la rendant attentive à la responsabilité qui est la sienne dans les choix qu'elle fait à partir de cette orientation.</i> P. 51 Ce qui nous renvoie à Ignace.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;">At the risk of being shot down 4: <br />Where does same sex orientation come from?</span></h3>
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As I am neither a scientist, nor am I versed in current scientific research, I would rather quote mostly from Alex Tylee's book, <i>Walking with gay friends</i>. As a Christian author with same sex orientation, I find her remarkable for her absence of "pressing an agenda to find what suits her."</div>
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"<i>As much as I would love to go along with the fashionable 'born gay' consensus (it would be very politically convenient), I can't. The evidence does not support the idea that sexuality is a fixed biological given."</i> [Peter Tatchell, in The Guardian June 28th 2006.] To date, all studies of the genetic basis of sexual orientation of men and women have failed to meet one or more of the (five necessary) criteria. However, we cannot completely dismiss all the finding in this arena, as there is enough evidence to suggest <i>some </i>genetic influence on homosexual orientation. It is important to be humble and open to new ideas and research while also being shrewd and discerning in this area. An article in <i>Nucleus </i>sums this up well: <i>It certainly is easy to bring preconceptions to scientific investigation. We are always tempted to view the facts selectively to verify our convictions.</i>" P. 49, 50. <b>And this is true for both gay and non gay people, for Christians and not Christians.</b> As for us, the public, this article goes on to warn us: <i>Tenuous conjecture is portrayed as certain conclusion to a gullible public.</i></div>
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So to conclude this post I would again like to quote Alex Tylee, speaking about any disposition or orientation with which we be either born, or we acquire, or both: <i>it is important to have compassion for something which is outside a person's control, while at the same time holding them responsible for their choices in acting on their tendencies.</i> P. 51 Which brings us back to Ignatius.</div>
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L'avantage d'avoir fait une pause dans mon blog, c'est que j'ai eu l'occasion inattendue de lire deux livres exceptionnels sur la question de l'homosexualité: l'un est écrit par une lesbienne chrétienne, l'autre par un théologien américain (cité par le premier auteur, en l'occurrence). Les deux livres sont remarquables pour leur clarté, leur conviction et leur compassion - sans aucun esprit de jugement. Tout chrétien voulant réfléchir avec compassion et cohérence à ce sujet brulant bénéficiérait énormément de leur lecture. Malheureusement le premier n'est qu'en anglais, mais voici les références...<br />
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<li><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Straight and Narrow? - Thomas <span style="font-size: small;">E. Schmidt - ivp: chez <a href="http://www.amazon.fr/livre-achat-occasion-litterature-roman/b?ie=UTF8&node=301061" target="_blank">Amazon.fr </a>en français!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="btAsinTitle"><br />L'homosexualité. Perspectives bibliques et réalités contemporaines </span></span></span></i></li>
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Il me semble qu'on doit distinguer deux niveaux quand on veut réfléchir à la question de l'homosexualité. Il y a le niveau du choix personnel, qui est une affaire personnelle; et puis il y a le niveau de la société et des lois, qui guident la vie de toute une nation. Je commencerai avec le choix personnel.<br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Choisi<span style="font-size: small;">ssez</span> aujourd'hui qui vous allez servir<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">!</span> </span></span></b></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span>'est ce que Josué a dit aux Israëlites après leur sortie<span style="font-size: small;"> d'</span>Egypte. Il n'allait fo<span style="font-size: small;">rcer personner, <b>car c'était à chacun de choisir po</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ur lui-même.</b> Pas de p<span style="font-size: small;">ossibilité d'être entre deux chaises! Je remarque en passant que Josué ne leur demande pas d'abord de choisir <span style="font-size: small;">l'obéissance à des lois,<i> mais l'obéissance à une personne</i>, celui qu'ils serviront: le Dieu qui les avait délivrés de</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> l'esclavage </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">en </span>Egypte, l'<span style="font-size: small;">É</span>ter<span style="font-size: small;">n</span>el, "JE SUIS", ou bien un <span style="font-size: small;">des dieux des nations environnantes<span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jesus reprend le même thème en défiant les gens de choi<span style="font-size: small;">sir entre <i>servir Dieu,</i> ou <i>servir le pouvoir de l'argent</i>. Pas possible de choisir les deux comme patrons!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aujourd'hui notre choix c'est soit Jésus Christ, soit quelqu'un ou quelque chose d'autre<span style="font-size: small;"> - que nous considérons, de fa<span style="font-size: small;">ç</span>on consciente ou inconsciente, comme étant de première importance<span style="font-size: small;">. Jésus disait souvent aux gens,<span style="font-size: small;"> que ce soit les disciples ou les foules, <b><i>Venez à moi, suivez-moi, a<span style="font-size: small;">y</span>ez confiance en moi... </i></b>il ne di<span style="font-size: small;">sait pas... <i><b>maîtrisez <span style="font-size: small;">d'abord votre obéissance aux lois, ensuite vous pouvez faire partie des miens.</span></b></i><span style="font-size: small;"> En plus, i<span style="font-size: small;">l ne parlait pas ainsi dans la <span style="font-size: small;">synagogue, mais dans des lieux où il était entouré de <span style="font-size: small;">gens dont la vie n'était pas tout à fait exemplaire... des prostitués, des immoraux sexu<span style="font-size: small;">e<span style="font-size: small;">ls<span style="font-size: small;">,</span></span> des fraudeurs, voleurs et j'en passe.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mais quand il s'agit de nous, au<span style="font-size: small;">jourd'hui, Chr<span style="font-size: small;">étiens individuels et en Église, et par rapport à de<span style="font-size: small;">s
personnes homosexuelles dans leur identité, nous faisons justement le
contraire: nous nous gardons à une distance prudente et ne voulons <i>s</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>urtout pas</i> qu'ils <span style="font-size: small;">viennent dans nos lieux de<span style="font-size: small;"> culte</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>. Il faut que tout rentre dans l'ordre <i>d'abord</i>. Un exemple: <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Il y a trois ans environ, j'ai <span style="font-size: small;">invité un<span style="font-size: small;"> ami homosexuel au culte, et quand une certaine personne en a eu vent, elle a dit: <i>si j'avais su je ne serais pas venue.</i></span></span> <b><i> </i></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mais no<span style="font-size: small;">s lieux de culte, nos lieux d'<span style="font-size: small;">Église, ne devraient-ils pas être des l<span style="font-size: small;">ieux par excellence où les gens se sentent accueillis et aimés, <i>et ensuite</i> entendre le message extraordinaire concernant Jésus Chr<span style="font-size: small;">ist?</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></i></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quand Pierre s'est f<span style="font-size: small;">ait lavé les pieds par Jésus, avait-il été d'abord chez le p<span style="font-size: small;">édicure pour qu'ils soient présentables?</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Au fil de mes découvertes de la personne de Jésus Christ, à travers <span style="font-size: small;">s</span>es biographies les plus an<span style="font-size: small;">ciennes - les Évangiles<span style="font-size: small;"> - je vois une personne<span style="font-size: small;"> passionnée <i>d'abord</i> par la relation, la rencontre de personnes souvent dans le p<span style="font-size: small;">étrin. <span style="font-size: small;">Il leur montre son amour, non pas son jugement, <i>et <span style="font-size: small;">ensuite </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">il les défi<span style="font-size: small;">e</span> de vivre de façon juste. Deux récits me viennent immédiatement à l'esprit écrits par l'<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">a</span>pôtre
Jean: celui de la femme samaritaine au puits de Jacob, et celui de la
femme prise en flagrant délit d'adultère et amenée devant Jésus pour
être lapidée. A son grand étonnement, et sans doute à son <span style="font-size: small;">grand soulagement</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>, les accusateurs de cette dernière partent sur la pointe des pieds et elle entend Jésus lui dire: <b><i>Personne t'a condamnée?... Eh bien moi non plus je ne te condamne pas. Tu peux <span style="font-size: small;">partir, mais ne retourne pas à ton ancienne vie.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jésus est venu</span><b><i><span style="font-size: small;"> plein de grâce et de vérité. </span></i></b><span style="font-size: small;">Difficil<span style="font-size: small;">e!
Mais nous sommes appelés à lui ressembler. Comme il a démontré dans sa
personne l'amour et la vérité du Père aux êtres humains, a<span style="font-size: small;">insi nous sommes envoyés pour faire de même. Mais au final<span style="font-size: small;">, chaque être humain doit faire son propre choix, librement, et<span style="font-size: small;"> c</span>e n'est pas de mon ressort de le juger s'il ne choisit pas Christ. <span style="font-size: small;">P</span>ar contre, je lui doit le respect d'un amour vrai, divin.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">S 'il choi<span style="font-size: small;">sit le Christ, c</span>'est le premier pas qui change tout, le pas fondamental. <b><i><span style="font-size: small;">T</span>out pas supplémentaire ressorte d'un processus de grâce transformatrice</i></b> qui aligne nos vies avec la Vérité qui, en l'occurrence, est une personne. Une personne <span style="font-size: small;">homosexuelle dans son </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">i<span style="font-size: small;">dentité </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>n'est pas "un cas spécial"; elle a autant besoin que toute autre personne<span style="font-size: small;"> de premièrement se savoir aimé du Christ, et <b><i>d'avoir la liberté <span style="font-size: small;">qui découle de l'Esprit saint en elle pour évoluer vers une ressemblance au Christ</span></i></b></span> à laquelle tout Chrétien est appelé.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">At the risk of being shot down 3: Let's go!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The advantage of having had a pause in my blog posts is that I had the unexpected opportunity of reading two outstanding books on the question of homosexuality; one written by a Christian lesbian, the other by an American theologian (who is quoted by the first author, as it happens!). Both books were remarkable for their clarity, conviction and compassion - with not the slightest whiff of judgement. They are...</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Walking with Gay Friends - by Alex Tylee - ivp</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Straight and Narrow? - Thomas E. Schmidt - ivp</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Both would benefit any Christian who wants to think about this hot subject compassionately, non-judgmentally and coherently with the biblical references. Order them from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/books-used-books-textbooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=266239" target="_blank">Amazon</a> now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As far as I can see, there are two levels at which I want to think about homosexuality, the Church, and m</span>y personal attitude to individual people of same sex attraction. There is the question of personal choice, which is an individual affair, even if it has consequences on society and culture as a whole; then there is the question of law and society, which guides a whole nation's life. I shall start with the personal choice.<br />
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As Joshua once put it to the Israelites: <i><b>Choose today whom you will serve</b></i>. He wasn't going to force anybody, but each person had to make that choice. There was no way you could just sit on the fence. I notice too, that he doesn't ask them to choose about laws, he asks them to choose <i><b>whom they will serve</b></i>, the God who led them out of Egypt, the Eternal I AM; or another god as the peoples around them? Jesus says the same thing, making it very clear that there's no place for fence sitting, it's God or it's <i>the power</i> of money, or possession. You can't have both and.<br />
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Today our choice is Jesus Christ or something else which we count as supreme - whether we recognize it or not. Jesus kept saying to people, <b><i>Come to me, follow me, trust in me...</i></b> he didn't go round issuing a list of rules... <b><i>master your obedience to the "dos and don'ts" and then you can be one of mine. </i></b>What is more he <b><i>can be found in all sorts of places mixing with folk who manifestly don't "come up to scratch." </i></b>You know the kind: prostitutes, sexually immoral, tax dodgers, thieves and so on.<b><i> </i></b>He didn't issue his call to follow Him from the synagogue<b><i>.</i></b><br />
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But when it comes to us today, individual Christians and the Church, with respect to people of homosexual identity, we do the opposite: we keep a safe distance from them and we certainly <i>don't</i> want to have them in Church. A few years ago, I had invited a homosexual friend to the service, because he helped us find the slogan for our new church logo. In the event he didn't come, but a Christian lady heard about that, and do you know what her reaction was? If I'd known, I wouldn't have come! <b><i>Shouldn't Church be the first place where people can come and be welcomed and loved and hear the great news about Jesus Christ?</i></b> When Peter had his feet washed by Jesus, did he get himself a pedicure first so they would smell nice?<br />
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As I get to know Christ, through his biographies, the Gospels, I see someone who was passionate about relating to people <i>first</i>, meeting them in their mess, showing them he loved them and didn't judge them, <i>and only then</i>, challenging them with living right. Two accounts come to mind from the pen of the Apostle John; the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, and the woman caught in adultery and dragged before Jesus to be stoned to death with his approval. To the latter's amazement, Jesus says to her, when all her accusers had shamefacedly crept away, <b><i>has no-one condemned you? ... Neither do I. Off you go then, and don't go back to doing wrong.</i></b><br />
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Jesus Christ came <b>full of grace and truth.</b> We are called to be like him, and as He showed the Father's love and truth to the world, so we are called to do the same. But in the end, every human being has to make their own choice and it's not for me to judge anyone. But I do owe them the respect that comes from sincere love.<br />
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Follow Jesus? Or not? That's the first step, the fundamental one.<b> All other steps are processes of transforming grace aligning our lives with the Truth</b>, which happens to be a person. A person of same sex attraction is not a "special case"; they have the same need as any of us to come to know the love of Jesus Christ, <i>first</i>, and to evolve in the freedom of the Holy Spirit within them towards likeness to Christ.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-65824461547762243222013-03-29T10:39:00.003-07:002015-09-17T03:27:24.257-07:00Au risque de me faire descendre 2<h2>
Trève de Pâques?</h2>
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Non, pas vraiment. En fait, Pâques me rappelle un autre a priori fondamental quand il s'agit de discuter d'un sujet aussi miné que celui de l'homosexualité...<br />
<i><b>Personne n'est parfait</b></i>.<br />
Personne peut réclamer qu'il n'ait jamais fait de faute, n'ait jamais omis de faire le bien, n'ait jamais eu une pensée dont elle avait honte; ni moi, ni toi qui me lit.<br />
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Hier j'ai médité, (en anglais) sur le récit de la veille de Pâques, de cet instant incompréhensible pour les disciples où Jésus se met à la place de l'esclave, ou de la femme s'il n'y en avait pas, et s'est mis à laver les pieds des disciples selon la coûtume d'hospitalité d'alors.<br />
<b><i><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text John-13-1">Jésus <u>savait</u> que l'heure était venue pour lui de quitter ce monde pour s'en aller auprès de son Père... </span></span></i><i>Jésus <u>savait</u> que le Père avait tout remis entre ses mains, qu'il était venu d'auprès de Dieu et allait retourner auprès de lui. </i></b><br />
Jésus savait d'où il venait... et pourquoi, et où il allait... et pourquoi. Je ne pense pas qu'il savait uniquement de la tête. Je pense qu'il le savait dans ses tripes et c'est à partir de là qu'il puisait la force d'aller de l'avant au risque de se faire descendre. Son identité était lié à Dieu, qu'il nommait "mon Père".<br />
<i><span class="text John-13-12" id="fr-BDS-26660">Après leur avoir lavé les pieds, il remit son vêtement et se rassit à table. Alors il leur dit:</span><br /><span class="text John-13-12">---<b>Avez-vous compris</b> <b>ce que je viens de vous faire? </b></span></i><span class="text John-13-12">(Semeur)</span><i><span class="text John-13-12">---<b><u>Savez-vous</u> ce que je viens de vous faire? </b></span></i><span class="text John-13-12">(Du grec.)</span><br />
<span class="text John-13-12">Je n'ai aucun problème avec la traduction du Semeur de cette question du Seigneur, mais la version anglaise dans laquelle je l'ai lue employait "know", ce qu'on trouve en l'occurrence dans le grec. Je me suis demandé si l'auteur de l'évangile ne l'ait pas fait exprès, d'employer le même mot? Savez-vous, non seulement dans la tête, <i>mais dans les tripes, </i>ce que je vous ai fait?</span><br />
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<span class="text John-13-12">Not really</span><i><span class="text John-13-12"><b>. </b></span></i><span class="text John-13-12">In fact</span><i><span class="text John-13-12"><b>, </b></span></i><span class="text John-13-12">Easter reminds me of another fundamental a priori that needs to be stated when dealing with such an explosive subject as homosexuality...</span><br />
<span class="text John-13-12"><b><i>No-one is perfect.</i></b></span><br />
<span class="text John-13-12">No-one can claim that they have never done anything wrong, never omitted to do right, or never thought something of which they were ashamed; not me, not you who are reading these lines.</span><br />
<span class="text John-13-12">Yesterday I was meditating on the Easter eve story, on that incomprehensible moment, for the disciples, when Jesus took the role of the slave, or the woman if there wasn't a slave, and started washing the disciples' feet, as was Jewish custom of hospitality at that time.</span><br />
<b><i><span class="text John-13-1">Jesus <u>knew </u>that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father... </span><span class="text John-13-3" id="en-NRSV-26623">Jesus, <u>knowing </u>that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God...</span></i></b><br />
<span class="text John-13-3" id="en-NRSV-26623">Jesus knew where he had come from... and why, and he knew where he was going... and why. I don't think he just knew it for a fact. I think he knew it deep down in his guts, and it's from there that he drew the strength to carry on at the risk of being shot down. His identity was linked with God's, whom he named, "my Father."</span><br />
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their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said
to them, “Do you <u>know </u>what I have done to you? </span></i></b><span class="text John-13-12" id="en-NRSV-26632">(NRSV)</span><br />
<span class="text John-13-12" id="en-NRSV-26632">I wondered to myself, as the train drew near to my destination, whether the author of this gospel didn't use the word "know" in both cases on purpose? Do you know what I've just done to you? Do you know it not just as a fact, <i>but in your guts?</i></span><br />
<span class="text John-13-12" id="en-NRSV-26632">Do we know, deep down inside, what Jesus Christ did for us? That's Easter for you.<i> </i></span><br />
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Car j'aimerais amorcer une réflexion sur un sujet tabou: l'homosexualité. Je suis consciente du risque d'être mal comprise, de part et d'autre... le terrain est, après tout, miné. Mais par respect pour les personnes qui se voient cantonner dans une boîte étiquettée "homosexuel," par désir de considérer une question qui soulève des réactions émotionnelles fortes du côté chrétien, et par nécéssité personnelle, je m'y lance. {Clique sur le lien en bas de l'anglais pour poursuivre...}<br />
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Well, yes, it could come to that, by words that it! Because although the word <b><i>tolerance </i></b>has become the universal value to be applied in all circumstances, it has been hijacked by the concept of "politically correct," which has also crept into today's value system on tip toe and is now a major criteria for limiting the freedom of speech, itself a value people have <i>died </i>for. I am well get shot down as a political heretic. Too bad. human beings are worth far more than being considered politically correct.<br />
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Because I would like to get going some thought on a taboo subject: homosexuality. I am aware that I run the risk of being totally misunderstood, from different sides... it does consist, after all, in walking on mined territory. But out of respect for people who are put in the box marked "homosexual," out of the desire to think about a question that sparks strong emotional reactions from many Christians, and because I need to do it for personal reasons, I'm going for it.<br />
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J'aimerais au-dessus de tout m'inspirer de la personne de Jésus Christ qui, en flagrante opposition au politiquement et religieusement correcte de son temps, accueillait ceux qu'on nommait "pécheurs," et "gens de mauvaise réputation." Et ceci d'une part pour les personnes d'identité homosexuelle que les chrétiens nomment facilement "pécheurs;" d'autre part pour les chrétiens, qui par ces derniers s'entendent nommer "gens de mauvaise réputation - intolérants."<br />
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Il me semble urgent de commencer par retrouver des<b><i> a piori de base en commun</i></b>. Sans cela, nous entrons immédiatement dans un dialogue de sourds-aveugles. En voici quelques uns...<br />
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<li>Nous sommes tous des êtres humains, nés un certain jour, et destinés à mourir un autre jour, inconnu.</li>
<li>Nous faisons tous face à une vie remplie de choses joyeuses et de choses tragiques, de maladies, de bonne santé etc.</li>
<li>Au fur et au mesure que nous grandissons, nous sommes influencés tous par nos différents entourages... famille, école, collègues de travail, amis, lieux de loisir, la politique, la culture ambiante y compris les non-dits, les livres, les journaux, la télé, et ainsi de suite. </li>
<li>Nous ne pouvons pas éviter ce processus, <b><i>mais nous pouvons, à certains moments, en devenir conscient et en faire un choix entre ces influences:</i></b> lesquelles vais-je consciemment m'approprier? Lesquelles vais-je rejeter? Ceci donne à chacun de nous des principes directives avec lesquelles nous voulons vivre.</li>
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I would like the person of Christ to be my inspiration, he who flouted the politically and religiously correct of his time by welcoming those who were labelled "sinners" and "people of bad reputation." And I'm doing this both for those of homosexual identity, whom Christians can be quick to label "sinners," and for Christians whom the latter often label as "people of bad reputation" - that is, intolerant.</div>
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<li>We are all human beings, born a certain day and destined to die on some other unknown day</li>
<li>We are all faced with living a life that will be filled with happy things and tragic things, sickness & heath, etc.</li>
<li>As we grow up, we are influenced by our different people surroundings: family, school, work colleagues, friends, leisure places, politics, ambient culture, (which includes the taboo areas,) books, newspapers, telly and so on.</li>
<li>We cannot avoid this process, <b><i>but we can, at certain moments, become conscious of it and make a choice between different influences:</i></b> the ones I want to consciously appropriate and the ones I want to consciously reject. This gives each of us a particular guiding framework within which we want to live.</li>
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<b>Would you agree with these? </b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-63992994096308425622013-02-18T03:29:00.005-08:002013-02-18T03:29:58.968-08:00Théologie DE la mission ou théologie MISSIONNELLE?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Citations d'un article remarquable écrit par un homme remarquable.</b><br />
J'ai eu la chance de connaître David Smith comme mon pasteur alors que je fréquentais l'Église baptiste Eden (l'EBE) de Cambridge. J'étais, à l'époque, étudiante en théologie en préparation pour un service outremer: J'avais l'intention de poser ma candidature à Wycliffe UK. Je considère que David est remarquable pour ces raisons: sa sagesse tranquille, son amour rayonnant pour Christ et sa largeur de vision. En voici un exemple; un jour je vais le voir pour lui dire que je pensais devoir quitter L'EBE pour rejoindre l'Église anglicane dans laquelle j'étais engagée auprès des jeunes comme stage pratique continue de mes études théologiques. En plus, je lui explique que cette Église anglicane n'a aucun missionnaire envoyé personnellement de chez elle, tandis chez l'EBE il y en a une liste aussi longue que mon bras! Et la réponse de David? "Vas-y! Avec ma bénédiction!"<br />
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Si les quelques citations ci-dessous vous titillent, et que vous comprenez l'anglais, téléchargez tout l'article<b><span style="color: #b45f06;"> <span style="color: #b45f06;"><a href="http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/sbet/13-1_15.pdf" target="_blank">ici</a></span>,</span></b> en attendant que je le traduise!<br />
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"En fait, il est impossible d'exaggérer combien l'idéologie de la chrétienté a influencé les Églises d'Europe. Aujourd'hui même, alors que le pouvoir écclésiastique d'antan est en ruines, la mentalité de la chrétiénté nous colle à la peau de telle sorte qu'elle continue à formater notre façon de penser mission."<br />
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"... la question missiologique la plus urgente qui se pose aujourd'hui et celle-ci: <b><i>est-ce que l'Occident peut encore se convertir?</i></b> Dans une telle situation, le sujet de mon article paraît être d'une importance critique; le sujet de la mission, si longtemps réléguée à un coin obscure, doit maintenant trouver sa dans le curriculum des écoles théologiques non pas avec une compassion condescendantem mais parce que cette matière marginalisée est peut-être celle qui peut revitaliser la théologie ET offrir à l'Église en Occident le chemin vers une réveille authentique.<br />
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<b>Quotes from a remarkable article written by a remarkable man.</b><br />
I had the privilege of knowing David Smith when he was pastor at Eden Baptist church in Cambridge, back in the seventies. I was a relatively new Christian, a student at Romsey House Theological College (now amalgamated out of existence but not out of memory) and a member of Eden Baptist. I consider David remarkable because of his quiet wisdom, glowing love for Christ, and breadth of vision... I mean think of it; I go to him one day to explain that I think God is telling me to leave E.B. and revert to the Anglican fold, because of the practical work I was doing amongst teenagers there as part of my theological training. I also said that I would apply to work with Wycliffe, a mission organization, from the Anglican church and not from E.B. because "they don't have any personally supported missionaries and E.B. has a list of them as long as your arm!" And what did David answer? "Go with my blessing." <br />
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"Indeed, it is impossible to exaggerate the extent to which the ideology of Christendom influenced the churches in Europe. Even today, living amid the ruins of past ecclesiastical power, the mentality of the corpus christianum clings to us in all kinds of ways and continues to shape our thinking about mission."<br />
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Last Friday I saw the film, <b><i>Lincoln</i></b>, in French! The fourth film in as many months to do with the abolition of slavery & equal rights. My! What a fight to achieve that goal. What tortuous ways needed to be negotiated to get that 13th amendment passed; what battles of conscience, what risks and bluffing, persistence & pain, courage & a dash of folly? The kind of folly that pursues the goal against overwhelming odds.<br />
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I don't know how faithfully the film portrayed Lincoln's personality & ways, but now I sure want to find out. He came across as a real maverick, yet at times so ordinary, shocking people often by his seemingly glib propensity to tell a story at a critical moment... but which he then applies to that same critical moment, leaving people gaping at the mouth.<br />
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Just a tip: before you see the film, brush up your history on the war of secession & the 13th amendment. That way you'll be right with it from the beginning. This is an intense film about the last four months of Lincoln's life as he struggled to push through the 13th amendment AND broker peace between the very UN-united States of America!<br />
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Vendredi passé, surprise! Nous étions invités au cinéma pour voir "Lincoln." C'était le quatrième film autour du sujet de l'abolition de l'esclavage et l'égalité des droits en autant de mois. Quelle lutte pour arriver à ce but. Quels tactiques tortueuses devaient être employées pour faire passé le 13ème amendement; quelles luttes intérieures, quelles risques et défis, quelle persistence et douleur, courage et un brin de folie? La folie qui fonce en dépit des chances de succès risibles.</div>
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Je ne sais pas dans quelle mesure le film est fidèle à la vraie personne de Lincoln, mais je vais me renseigner! Il ressort comme un original, et pourtant parfois si ordinaire. Souvent il a choqué son "clan" en racontant une histoire apparemment rien à voir à des moments critiques... pour ensuite l'appliquer justement à ce moment critique, de telle sorte que les gens restaient bouche-bée.</div>
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Je rentre d'un week-end fort intéressant: le Forum des Évangélistes (FDE). Cette association existe pour encourager et faire connaître le don, le service/ministère, de l'évangéliste en francophonie.<br />
Le fait que j'y assiste était un peu un "accident", du genre <i>dirigé par Dieu, mais Il n'a pas apposé sa signature!</i> Je me considère "évangéliste dans l'âme," c'est à dire passionnée par la mission de Dieu de partir à la recherche des êtres humains, tous paumés que nous sommes! Mais je n'ai jamais été identifiée officiellement comme une évangéliste. C'était, donc, une première pour moi.<br />
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Par un autre "accident" du genre déjà mentionné, mais aussi de mon plein gré, je me suis trouvée au programme pour animer un "aéropage", chose inconnue pour moi jusqu'à ce week-end! Cela repésentait 15 minutes où j'étais libre de dire ce que je voulais, en lien avec le week-end, bien sûr. Mon titre était le même que celui ci-dessus... piégés par des mots.<br />
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<b>C'est que nos mots donne forme à nos <i>pensées</i>, puis à nos <i>attitudes </i>et ensuite à nos <i>actes/omissions</i>.</b> Mais tout cela se passe inconsciemment pour la plupart du temps. Il faut faire un effort conscient de défier l'utilisation de tel mot pour tel concept. Et dans le domaine de la transmission du message du Christ, cela est d'une importance capitale.<br />
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J'ai découvert, lors d'un atelier que j'ai nommé SAVEURS, que je ne suis de loin pas la seule personne piégée par l'image que le mot <b><i>évangélisation </i></b>évoque dans ma tête. D'où l'importance de confronter ces images et les mots qui les génèrent pour redécouvrir ce que cela veut dire d'être envoyé <b><i>par, </i></b>et <b><i>comme, </i></b>Christ: <b><span style="color: orange;"><i>Comme le Père m'a envoyé, je vous envoie. </i></span></b>Jean 19:20. On pourrait objecter, "m<i>ais je ne suis pas Jésus, moi!" </i>Mais<i> </i>Jésus a déjà prévu le coup, car il continue: <span style="color: orange;"><b><i>reçois mon Esprit.<span style="color: black;"> </span></i></b></span>On n'est pas largué par le Maître, on est accompagné de l'intérieur comme de l'extérieur.<br />
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<b><i>Comme</i></b>... de la même façon dont Jésus a été envoyé, cela veut dire quoi, ça? On n'est pas enlevé par un commando d'anges pour ensuite redescendre du ciel, donc... Attendez, peut-être quand-même suis-je appelé à descendre, dans le sens <i>quitter (sans délaisser) mon cercle d'amis chrétiens, quitter la sécurité des quatre murs de notre lieu de culte, quitter les lieux célestes où je suis assise avec Christ, comme Lui a quitté le Père</i>? Pour revenir sur terre, dans l'insécurité et la vulnérabilité de la compagnie de ceux que je ne sais pas trop comment cotoyer; pour être plongé dans leur pétrin, qui parfois pue un peu trop fort pour mes goûts. Pour finalement apprendre à voir ceux qui m'entourent avec un regard tinté du regard du Christ, pour enfin prendre plaisir à les aimer?<br />
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Et tout d'un coup on est à des lieux de l'image que le mot "l'évangélisation" a évoqué dans mon esprit. Alors, peut-être faut-il largué le mot?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-32052139031397074992013-01-21T02:39:00.000-08:002013-01-31T03:34:58.579-08:00Choisir, ça change tout!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pendant mes vacances de fin d'année, j'ai eu la chance de tomber sur l'autobiographie d'André Agassi, <span style="color: #e69138;"><a href="http://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_6/278-3567847-3774809?__mk_fr_FR=%C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=agassi+biographie&sprefix=Agassi%2Cstripbooks%2C305" target="_blank">"Open"</a></span>. Étant fan d'<span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Agassi#1986.E2.80.931993" target="_blank">Agassi</a> </span>depuis sa victoire à Wimbledon en 1992, non seulement pour son tennis, mais aussi pour son exemple de persévérance, ce livre faisait partie de ma liste "à lire absoluement."<br />
Imaginez ma joie quand j'ai lu, vers la fin de son livre, comment il a découvert cette règle de vie dont je parle aussi dans mon livre, <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1477230203/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1" target="_blank">"Thank <i><b>God </b></i>for antidepressants!"</a></span> Choisir, ça change <i>tout</i>! Figurez vous qu'Agassi avait toujours <i>détesté </i>le tennis! Depuis la petite jeunesse jusqu'à sa trentaine. Il l'a subi. C'était le choix de son père. Et quand il a évoqué l'idée de changer de métier avec son père, ce dernier lui dit: <i>tu ne sais rien faire d'autre.</i> Mais dans les dernières années d'une carrière professionnelle qui s'est étendue sur 19 ans, il a décidé de la choisir pour lui-même. Dès lors il n'a plus <i>subi </i>sa vie, il l'a <i>assumée</i>, et du coup il a découvert une liberté et une décontration inconnue avant.<br />
J'ai aussi été conduit sur ce chemin-là, et j'ai découvert que même pour les choses pour lesquelles je "n'avais pas le choix," je pourrais les <i>choisir</i>, les <i>assumer</i>, les <i>accueillir</i>. C'est le sujet du chapitre 9 de mon livre qui sortira en français, je l'espère, dans quelques mois.<br />
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During my end of year holiday in England, I had the good luck to fall on Andre Agassi's autobiography, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Open" target="_blank">"Open."</a> Having been a fan of Andre's ever since he won Wimbledon in 1992, not only for his tennis but also for his attitude, this book was <i>definitely </i>on my "wish list!" Imagine the fun of discovering near the end of his book, that he had discovered a life principle that I write about in my book, <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1477230203/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1" target="_blank">"Thank <i><b>God </b></i>for antidepressants!"</a></span> <b><i>Choosing changes everything.</i></b> </div>
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I found out that Andre had always <i>hated </i>tennis! From a very early age until in his early thirties; that's a long, long time. He <i>endured </i>it. It was his father who made the choice that he would be a world class tennis player. When one day Andre had the temerity to suggest he might like to do something else, his father said: <i>there's nothing else you can do. </i>But in those last year of his professional tennis career, which spanned 19 years, he decided to choose to play tennis for himself. From that moment on he no longer <i>endured </i>it, he took it upon himself, and the result was a freedom he had never known before.</div>
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I was also led to travel that road and I discovered that life principle even in things for which I seemed to have <i>no </i>choice. But I did: I could chose, take them on, embrace them. That's the subject of ch. 9 of my book, which has now been translated into French and will be published, I hope, in a few months time.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-42595259896732732762012-12-27T08:01:00.002-08:002013-01-31T04:49:36.392-08:00Candida compatible Mincemeat... for 2013 !There you are, recovering from Christmas, resting up so as to enjoy New Years, and on holiday at home to boot! There's no better time for making your Mincemeat for next year so that it macerates for twleve whole months, and, when you come to thinking about Christmas 2013, your dessert will already be partly done!<br />
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<b>But here's the plus! My mincemeat is sugar free!</b> And yes, my mince pies are perfectly edible, not to say <i>delicious</i>, as well as being <i>post <a href="http://www.naturallysavvy.com/digestive-health/candidiasis-symptoms-recommendations" target="_blank">digestive candida compatible</a></i>! Here's the recipe...<br />
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500g mixed dried fruit - raisins, sultanas, abricots, prunes & dates (you choose!)<br />
1 large apple grated (sweet variety)<br />
50 - 100g chopped almonds<br />
50g <a href="http://www.xylitol.org/about-xylitol" target="_blank">xylitol</a> - if you have a very sweet tooth (see also <a href="http://karenshealthykitchen.com/The_Truth_About_Xylitol.html" target="_blank">here </a>for more info)<br />
50g grated suet<br />
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Grated rind of 1 orange<br />
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Vous voilà en train de vous remettre des festivités de Noël pour pouvoir faire face à celles de Nouvel An, et en plus, vous faites le pont. Que de mieux pour faire votre Mincemeat pour Noël 2013, afin qu'il macère pendant douze mois et gagne en maturité! Juste une petite précision - il ne s'agit pas de viande hachée, mais d'un mélange pour tartelettes de Noël à l'anglaise! <b>En plus, ma recette est sans sucre</b>, donc compatible <a href="http://www.naturallysavvy.com/digestive-health/candidiasis-symptoms-recommendations" target="_blank">post-candidose digestive</a> - et cela n'enlève rien au résultat final à part moins de caries dentaires. Voici ma recette...</div>
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500g fruits secs mélangés - raisins, raisins claires, abricots, pruneaux, dates (le choix est à vous!)</div>
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<b><i>Christianity that provides answers to questions not being asked, rather than providing solutions to the daily tyranny of crushing needs and tantalising hopes, will remain a half-measure with multitudes of patronising, but half-hearted adherents who, in the time of crisis, will always resort eslewhere for "realistic" answers.</i></b><br />
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So wrote Kwame Bediako, a Ghanaian theologian, in his book, <i>Jesus in Africa</i>. Amazing! I would have thought it might be someone in Europe talking about how people <i>outside</i> the Church see the Church over here. It seems to me that this reflects pretty accurately the challenge the Churches in the West are facing. It reminds me of what a friend, aged 95, said just two years before his death: <i>I have finally learnt to listen to what people are saying, and not give them answers to questions they aren't asking.</i> Now that's a gobsmacker! First for the sheer humility of a 95 year old admitting to such a thing, and second for the sheer simplicity of the lesson he passed on to those of us listening to him.<br />
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Here's another thought provoker from Bediako's pen: <i>But if Christ were to appear as the answer to the question that Africans are asking what would he look like? </i>What Bediako was getting at was the way Christ was presented to Africans, and the Scriptures read by them: From within a <i>Western </i>cultural frame of reference, not an African one*.<br />
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Thank you, Professor Bediako, for your perceptive observations and questions. And congratulations to my colleague and friend, Sue Arthur, for her brilliant MA dissertation, <i>The Word in West Africa</i>, which enabled me to discover yet more pearls from this remarkable theologian.<br />
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<i><b>Une foi chrétienne qui donnent des réponses à des questions que les gens ne se posent pas, au lieu de répondre aux besoins écrasants de leur lot journalier et à leurs espoirs désespérants, restera une foi de demi-mesure qui conduira ses "fidèles" sans conviction à chercher ailleurs, en temps de crise, pour des réponses plus "prometteuses".</b></i></div>
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Ainsi écrit Kwame Bédiako, théologien ghanéen, dans son livre <i>Jesus in Africa.</i> Incroyable! J'aurais cru entendre un européen au sujet de l'Église en Occident, vue par les gens <i>hors </i>Église. Il me semble que cela reflète de façon assez juste le défi auquel l'Église en Occident fait face actuellement. En même temps, cela me rappelle une remarque faite par un ami, âgé de 95 ans, deux ans avant sa mort: <i>J'ai enfin appris à écouter ce que les gens me disent, au lieu de leur donner des réponses à des questions qu'ils ne se posent pas. </i>Voilà une confession renversante! D'une part, quelle humilité de la part de ce vieil ami; et d'autre part quelle lucidité dans la leçon qu'il nous a passée.</div>
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Une deuxième pensée à effet miroir de Bédiako : <b><i>Si Christ apparaissait en réponse aux questions que se posent les Africains, à quoi ressemblerait-il?</i></b> Il disait cela à cause de la manière dont le Christ a été présenté aux Africains: dans un cadre culturel de référence <i>occidental</i>. Ainsi les Africains lisaient la Bible à partir de ce même cadre, qui n'était pas le leur*.</div>
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Merci au Professor Bédiako pour ses observations et questions percutantes. Et bravo à mon amie et collègue, Sue Arthur, pour sa dissertation de Master, <i>The Word in West Africa, </i>qui m'a fait découvrir encore des perles de ce théologien remarquable.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172449510638570955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2789267111706867369.post-12470008878909916012012-11-14T03:25:00.002-08:002012-11-14T03:28:49.332-08:00The spirituality of imperfection/L'imperfection comme spiritualitéWhat an intriguing title! I am the lucky recipient of <b><span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spirituality-Imperfection-Storytelling-Journey-Wholeness/dp/0553371320/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352892250&sr=1-1" target="_blank">the book</a></span></b> that bears it, by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, a Bantam Trade paperback. I was offered it by a friend in New Zealand who was giving me his feedback on my book. Somehow we got on to this topic and hey presto! He kept his promise to send it to me. More on it when I've got further into it!<br />
It reminds me of another book I read as I was wiritng my book: <b><i>Tomber sept fois, se relever huit,</i></b> written by Philippe Labro, author, journalist and filmmaker. The striking title is a Japanese popular poem, and is a message in itself: don't give up on hope. You may not get out of your mess first time round, but one day you will. But admit your mess.<br />
Becky Pippert, of <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGY8FqbNcA" target="_blank"><b><i>Out of the Saltshaker</i></b></a> </span>fame, makes a similar point when addressing Christian audiences around the world. People are hurting and so much in need of the message of the Bible, but if you don't live authentically, recognizing the mess in your life, you won't be able to lead them to the help you've found, in the person of Jesus Christ.<br />
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Quel titre intriguant, n'est-ce pas? J'ai la chance d'avoir reçu ce livre de la part d'un ami en Nouvelle Zélande. Nous étions en train de discuter de mon livre et nous sommes venu au sujet de l'imperfection dans nos vies de chrétiens, et voilà, le livre est arrivé chez moi, comme il me l'avait promis! J'en dirai plus une fois que je suis plus entré dans la matière!</div>
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Ce livre me rappelle un autre que j'ai lu pendant que j'écrivais mon livre: <b><span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.amazon.fr/Tomber-sept-fois-relever-huit/dp/2070305120/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352892119&sr=1-2" target="_blank"><i>Tomber sept fois, se relever huit</i></a></span></b>, de Philippe Labro, auteur, journaliste, cinéaste. Ce titre intriguant est en fait un poème populaire japonaise, et comporte tout un message en lui-même: ne renoncez jamais à l'espoir. Peut-être que vous ne sortirez pas de votre pétrin au premier essai, mais un jour vous le ferez. Mais, reconnaissez votre pétrin.</div>
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Becky Pippert, auteur et conférencière dans le monde anglophone, a un message similaire. Les personnes autour de nous ont tant de problèmes et ont tant besoin du message de la Bible, mais si vous ne vivez pas de façon authentique, en reconnaissant le pétrin dans votre vie, vous ne pourrez pas les amener à votre source d'aide, la personne de Jésus Christ. <span style="color: orange;"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGY8FqbNcA" target="_blank">Pour l'entendre</a></b></span> en anglais...</div>
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Il me semble que tout cela peut se résumer à ceci: trouver en Christ la liberté d'être nous-mêmes, <i>avec </i>nos défauts. Ainsi nous devenons des personnes intégrées, réelles et dignes de confiance.</div>
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