Faithfulness in a Fractured World: Rebuilding with Radical Love

``imagine if your church in America now would be a place where people refuse to let political become more powerful than their belief than their faith in Christ. Imagine where and if the church will be a place where disagreement does not destroy love. Imagine if your church will be a place where so called enemies will have a place, a space to engage with one another. And imagine where everyone coming to church will befell brother and sister and welcomed. Imagine how that look like. And that is the kind of community we are called to be. [01:14:24] (52 seconds)  #ChurchNotPolitics

But I tell people always that the genocide did not start in 1994. The genocide started back decades before. And you know how it started? With language. Language. The bible says that belief comes from faith. Sorry. Faith comes from hearing. Am I right? Am I quoting right? Faith comes from hearing. And what's faith? So everything of who we are start from a language. [00:47:16] (40 seconds)  #LanguageBreedsViolence

But where is the hope, my brothers and sisters? Where is the hope for all these people who don't know where they belong? For all these people who are not accepted in the world, and they are not accepted in our community of believers. Where are they? Who to run to? Who receive their cry and the pain and the beat? Who is there waiting for them to open doors for them? Who is there? [00:55:54] (27 seconds)  #HopeForTheRejected

When we see this work happening in Rwanda, where such lady has not only forgive the the perpetrator men and say, go away, is forgiving and inviting him in her house, and she they share food in her own house. This is same man who kid my wife, my two children, my parents, my whoever was involved in the mob. I don't only forgive him and say go away, I forgive him and invite him to come have a food with me in my house. [01:01:32] (38 seconds)  #RadicalForgivenessInAction

Tell me what's what science can do that? What theory can do that if it's not the power of the holy spirit? So when Jesus talks about dividing the wall, it's not brothers and sisters, he's not talking about something to imagine and think that's what kind of war did he build. We don't have war in America. It's actually the war of history that's are inside us, and that's the work of the cross. [01:02:11] (31 seconds)  #HolySpiritHealsWalls

And so to be faithful is to let the spirit support and encourage us to engage with brokenness. Because when we avoid brokenness around us, we are not being faithful. Because that's our calling as the church. That's the first mission of church in this world. There's none other. It's not just baptizing people. It's not just increasing the number. It's becoming ambassadors of reconciliation. [00:54:32] (30 seconds)  #AmbassadorsOfReconciliation

We either start raising enough money to buy plot in heaven, where people will be on their own whatever group, because in heaven, we all be living together as brothers and sisters. And so if we cannot live well together today, here, I wonder. You need to tell me the secret. If we cannot for any reason, how do we expect to live together while in heaven? [00:51:50] (30 seconds)  #LiveLikeHeavenNow

And still, in the same Christian country, the mode of Christianity in Africa, we had the genocide where over a million people were killed within hundred days, killed by their friends, their relatives, their family members, and their people they knew. And that create contracts, a contrast because Paul is not a part talk about modification. It's not just about changing something and modify, it's talking it's talking about transformation. [00:40:09] (34 seconds)  #TransformationNotModification