The title of a sermon delivered by Ugandan Anglican Bishop David Zac Niringiye at First Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, CA on October 22, 2006.Here's the link to the audiofile for a good listen, here. A challenge, a call to think about one's life in the West from the view of the rest...based on John 1:43-51.
Here are some quotes from this sermon:
"We all live today hoping for tomorrow...hope for tomorrow is what shapes to some extent how we live today; but it is also true that our view of the present shapes the way we hope for tomorrow."
"The majority of our world live today as if there are not a tomorrow - those on the fringes of life live as if today were the last day."
"Caution: There is a deception that comes with power and establishment. You and I that represent the power centers of the world - you and I who enjoy social and economic privilege - there is a deception that you and I who occupy the power centers of the world, shape the future. That is a deception."
The shape of the future does not lie with the center. The shape of the future lies not with today's powerful, but with those we consider to be on the margins...the powerless the voiceless. It is to them that the future belongs..."
"He took little children in his arms and said that the kingdom of God belongs to these...anyone who does not receive the Kingdom of God, like a child, will not enter. How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God...!"
"Jesus was crucified not in Jerusalem, but on the fringes, outside Jerusalem."
"Jesus invites us to the fringes, to experience the brokenness of the world, to identify with the margins - there we find the seeds of the Kingdom of God."
"Identify the fringes within you…the Nazareths within you.
Come and encounter that brokenness within you…because it is through this that God wants to work and transform you!
Brokenness turned into joy...is the story of the Christian life."
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