Building Bridges.....

I'm reading the book "simply Jesus" by N.T Wright He is asking himself and us some questions. Who was Jesus? Why did he do the things he did? How can we be sure? etc. Jesus was, and still is not easy to understand. Mark 12:30-31 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[a] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’[b] There is no commandment greater than these.” Love your neighbour as yourself. What does that really mean? Jesus also said Love your enemies. for centuries Christians have been living Jesus words, and especially love your neighbour and love your enemies, and while doing so they have been either killed, driven away , even whole community's and city's completely erased from Christianity. Churches has been turned into something else, christian heritage wiped away. We see this in the middle east and in many places in northern Africa. We do ne...

I found so many great mtrl out there on why and I have to post it for you... WHY SHOULD WE EVANGELIZE? - God Is Not Willing That Anyone Should Perish 2 Peter 3:9 New Testament for Everyone (NTE) 9 The Lord is not delaying his promise, in the way that some reckon delay, but he is very patient towards you. He does not want anyone to be destroyed. Rather, he wants everyone to arrive at repentance. It’s not the desire of God that people should perish , but God desires that the gospel of Christ be spread and shared to all mankind with the hope that people may come to a saving knowledge and relationship with God through Christ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We Have A Mandate To Evangelize 2 Timothy 4:5 New Testament for Everyone (NTE) 5 But as for you, keep your balance in everything! Put up with suffering; do the work of an evangelist; complete the particular task assigned to you. Remember that evangelizing is sim...

Evangelism is not a word I have heard often at churches in the past few years. Why should we do it? Why don't we see so much about it? What does the Bible say? How to do it? Did you know that young adults, age between 20–30 in Sweden who say they believe in God is about 18%. In Denmark, a country very close the figure is 34%. Why is that so? According to the research, almost all practising Christians believe that part of their faith means being a witness about Jesus. Between 94 and 97 per cent say the best thing that could ever happen to someone is for them to know Jesus. However, many Millennials in the US are unsure about the actual practise of evangelism. Almost half (47 per cent) agree at least somewhat that it is wrong to share ones personal beliefs with someone of a different faith in hopes that they will one day share the same faith. John Zmirak, writer and editor says, there are more Face book users than Christian's in the world. The ...

There are many traditions during new year in Sweden, some strange, some not that strange, and some odd. We dress up, we have party's, we drink champagne, we do fire works. Pretty normal. Some Stays at church and pray during the night, some like us stayed at an dog friendly hotel together with 50-60 other dog families. ( dog friendly = no fire works), and some listens to the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Ring out, wild bells read each year by different Swedish celebrities This is one of the last poems in Tennyson’s long masterpiece, In Memoriam (1850),Tennyson calls on the church bells to ‘ring out the old, ring in the new’, and to rid the world of the bad things that have occurred and to usher in a newer, brighter world. This New year the Swedish actor reading it changed some of the verses in the poem and even skipped the last words, with the Swedish state TVs knowledge and approval. The last words in the poem is like this: Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in ...