A rather well known Swedish actor said on national TV some days ago that during his many trips to Thailand he spend some time with a Buddhist Monk who said to him that " it is better to give than to receive". This actor thought it was so very nice to hear that and he never heard that before. Well he should have read the Bible! "In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” (Acts 20:35)
Living in a city as I am, in Malmo, Sweden, it feels natural to talk about bridges.In the year 2000 we got a bridge over the Sound to Copenhagen, Denmark. A bridge between two nations once fighting each other, now connected.We need to continue to build bridges, between different cultures, ideas, people etc. These bridges are harder to build but necessary in the society we have today.We need these bridges in order to reach people with the "Good news"