St John's Lent talks 2008, by the Revd. Keith Kimber
Christians
are those who’ve listened to the story and teaching of Jesus
Christ and decided
to base their lives upon it. They are many different kinds of people
from
different cultures with different histories, with different ways of
being
disciples. What unites them is love for God’s world and for
people, and their
desire to seek and do God’s will, as they understand it.
The
world is now very different from the one in which Jesus lived and
taught. How
can disciples of Christ today respond to issues which didn’t
exist then, to
questions which couldn’t have been asked until recently?
Nuclear weapons,
international terrorism, global warming, space travel, organ
transplants,
genetic coding, gender reassignment, secularisation, AIDS; for example.
There
are no ready answers and Christians don’t always agree in
understanding issues,
let alone responding to them, but for all of them the attitude of faith
offers a
way to seek the truth, asking the right questions and working out the
answers
together.
This
course gives a brief survey of matters touching upon our lives as the 21st
century gets under way, seeks to explore the meaning of faith in the
future.
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