Derby
01-13-2008, 03:47 PM
The Church and Christianity
By way of a student exchange a German lady, Heidi, stayed with us in the UK and, inviting us to visit her, we stayed in her home in Kassel in 1995; and met her other guest a Romanian girl, aged about 19. She was dressed in black as her mother had recently died; she lived with her sister and Father. Several times a year Heidi drove a truck of relief supplies to Romania and she had met the girl’s mother in hospital but drugs she brought came too late. We became friends, the sister visited us in England and we visited Romania twice, the father died between these two visits.
The point is that we got to know something of each others’ lives and church life and, incidentally, of the previous communist regime. It brought home to me the diversity in Christ’s Church. Now Eastern Europe is opening up many Orthodox Christians are emigrating and making communities elsewhere, taking their place amongst Catholic and Protestant cultures.
A recent newspaper article in the UK said that Tony Blair has changed his religion; he is now a Roman Catholic. I don’t think he has changed his religion.
Does it matter that we have various church organisations in the world, perhaps it is a good thing. There is certainly a spectrum of belief and practice between them.
I don’t know where this thread will go, if anywhere, I am hoping that it will be beneficial.
By way of a student exchange a German lady, Heidi, stayed with us in the UK and, inviting us to visit her, we stayed in her home in Kassel in 1995; and met her other guest a Romanian girl, aged about 19. She was dressed in black as her mother had recently died; she lived with her sister and Father. Several times a year Heidi drove a truck of relief supplies to Romania and she had met the girl’s mother in hospital but drugs she brought came too late. We became friends, the sister visited us in England and we visited Romania twice, the father died between these two visits.
The point is that we got to know something of each others’ lives and church life and, incidentally, of the previous communist regime. It brought home to me the diversity in Christ’s Church. Now Eastern Europe is opening up many Orthodox Christians are emigrating and making communities elsewhere, taking their place amongst Catholic and Protestant cultures.
A recent newspaper article in the UK said that Tony Blair has changed his religion; he is now a Roman Catholic. I don’t think he has changed his religion.
Does it matter that we have various church organisations in the world, perhaps it is a good thing. There is certainly a spectrum of belief and practice between them.
I don’t know where this thread will go, if anywhere, I am hoping that it will be beneficial.