the Congress of the "Lausanne Movement" in Cape Town I was tuned a very thoughtful presentation. A member of the Commission for Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda, spoke about the recent history of the country. He reported that before the genocide by 1994 90% of the population identified as Christians. This fact could not prevent brothers and sisters are fighting to the death. Why? The Commission met with the work of reconciliation on four factors. The Christians knew the Bible only through rote learning. They turned the gospel in everyday life , and were not of Christian social action. Finally, foreign missionaries gave off a bad example by not lived what they preached. I immediately thought of my homeland, where still more than 80% of the population belong to a church (BE) and wondered: What about our use of the Bible? Not only in the secular environment, but deep in our churches there is a frightening Bibelanalphabetismus. And what about our application of the Gospel? I had to our sick and elderly lonely, think of marginalized residents and killed the unborn. What about our role models? I came the rich and powerful in the sense: CHF 21 billion, the amount by which the assets of the 300 richest Swiss is increased in one year. This alone is not objectionable. That some of them but threaten to exit, if the tax increase, instead of like others to focus on their social responsibility is very pushing. And our football gods will be conducted by corrupt officials who awarded the World Cup in countries such as Russia and Qatar, where human rights are violated. I draw to black? I will not paint the devil on the wall. But exactly that to us again and again sprinkled sand in the eye, and we must ask ourselves: How can I promote the interaction of people from different nations and cultures? Because Christianity does not mean Swiss-being, but ambassadors of God's love towards all people.
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