Vigslyer
Junkie
Die Barmhartige Tronkvoël
Moslem
Bergie
Die Barmhartige Annoreksie Lyer
Tattoo Artist
Rastafarian / (kultuurgroep)
Gay man/vrou
Watter woorde sou Jesus vandag moes gebruik om jou aandag te kry?
Ons is al so gewoond aan die storie van die Barmhartige Samaritaan, dat ons vergeet watter impak dit op Jesus se gehoor sou hê. Die Samaritaan is in ons oë die goeie ordentlike ou wat pas in die storie.
Nie in Jesus se tyd nie...Jy wou nie saam met Samaritane gesien word nie, wat nog te sê met hulle praat! Hulle was outcasts. Onwelkom en onrein. Nie iemand om mee te assosieer nie.
In ons gedagtes is daar ook baie keer mense wat ons marginaliseer. Partykeer onbewustelik. Ons voel net dat God se genade nie heeltemal ver genoeg kan strek vir daardie groep mense nie. Hulle is in ons opinie uitgesluit - en met goeie rede...
Maar hoe anders is God se werklikheid nie! Hy het juis 'n hart vir mense wat op die rand van die samelewing leef. Hy meet met 'n ander maatstaf.
Luke 15 (Message)
1-3By this time a lot of men and women of doubtful reputation were hanging around Jesus, listening intently. The Pharisees and religion scholars were not pleased, not at all pleased. They growled, "He takes in sinners and eats meals with them, treating them like old friends." Their grumbling triggered this story.
4-7"Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and lost one. Wouldn't you leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until you found it? When found, you can be sure you would put it across your shoulders, rejoicing, and when you got home call in your friends and neighbors, saying, 'Celebrate with me! I've found my lost sheep!' Count on it—there's more joy in heaven over one sinner's rescued life than over ninety-nine good people in no need of rescue.
Hy ontferm Hom oor ons ELK-EEN.
Hy hang nie labels om ons nie. Hy sien ons anders. "Na Sy Beeld" gemaak. Jesus se bloed het die vermoë om vir ons 'n skoon canvas te gee, waarmee Hy 'n wonderlike kunswerk kan skep. 'n Skildery wat Hy duur gekoop het. Deur Sy oë, en dit wat Hy vir ons kom doen het, is ons volmaak. Onverdiend. Vergewe. Goeie Nuus vir ons Almal.
Hy het nie gesê gaan dan na "ons mense" toe en maak die mense my dissipels nie. Sy Boodskap kan nie net by "ons-dam-se-eende" bly nie. Nee, Hy sê gaan dan na AL die nasies toe... Geen uitsonderings. Geen kwalifikasies. Geen voorvereistes of diskriminasie nie. Amazing. Grace.
Lukas 7 vertel van Simon die Fariseer en hoe onsteld hy was oor die prosituut in sy huis wat Jesus kom salf het en nie kon ophou huil van blydskap nie.
Luke 7 ( Message)
40Jesus said to him, "Simon, I have something to tell you."
"Oh? Tell me."
41-42"Two men were in debt to a banker. One owed five hundred silver pieces, the other fifty. Neither of them could pay up, and so the banker canceled both debts. Which of the two would be more grateful?"
43-47Simon answered, "I suppose the one who was forgiven the most."
"That's right," said Jesus. Then turning to the woman, but speaking to Simon, he said, "Do you see this woman? I came to your home; you provided no water for my feet, but she rained tears on my feet and dried them with her hair. You gave me no greeting, but from the time I arrived she hasn't quit kissing my feet. You provided nothing for freshening up, but she has soothed my feet with perfume. Impressive, isn't it? She was forgiven many, many sins, and so she is very, very grateful. If the forgiveness is minimal, the gratitude is minimal."
48Then he spoke to her: "I forgive your sins."
Mag ons altyd onthou dat ons Sy ongelooflike Genade net so nodig het soos almal anders in die wêreld. Ons is nie vir die een of ander rede beter (of slegter) nie.
Want so lief het God vir Jakobus Lodewikus Potgieter
Mohamed Ahmal Kabir
Li Tin Pei
Fezeka Ndyadlivane
Sharish Bhatnagar
JOU
gehad, dat Hy Sy eniggebore Seun gegee het, sodat elkeen wat in Hom glo, nie verlore mag gaan nie, maar die ewige lewe kan hê. Want God het sy Seun in die wêreld gestuur nie om die wêreld te veroordeel nie, maar dat die wêreld deur Hom gered kan word.
1 John 3:16
The Message (MSG)
16-17This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God's love? It disappears.
Mag ons deur God se oë na almal rondom ons kyk - en ook na onsself. Mag ons wat soos Samaritane voel in 'n Joodse konteks weet dat God juis vir ons wil gebruik en mag ons ander Samaritane raaksien wat 'n sleutel rol in ons storie kan speel.
Gaan wees die jy die Barmhartige ...................................................................(jou naam)
