Living out the Accra Confession - Reclaiming spirituality
Friday, 19 May 2006 01:00
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Reclaiming spirituality
We were reminded in our Bible studies that God created us and the whole creation in God's integrity. However, today we are driven towards a state of madness by the forces of domination, the logic of empire (AC 19) and the neo-liberal temptation to worship mammon, not God (AC 22). This madness extends to the whole creation which is today paying a high price, threatening life in all its forms (MK 5.1 19). The Accra Confession warns that there may be no life at all if this madness continues and reminds us of God's call to choose life not death.
In this spirit we affirm that restoring our relationships with one another based on the virtues of mutual love, respect and justice, and our interconnectedness with the Earth, and with the compassionate God, the very source of life, is an urgent action that we and all humanity must take.
In this spirit we recognise that our human-centred perspective on nature is a misconception of God's creation.
In this spirit we are called to cherish the earth for it is the source of life; that we should recycle what we have already taken and find our rest and renewal in its life-giving beauty.
In this spirit we should reclaim the significance of spirituality in our lives and reconnect ourselves with nature, the incarnate reality of God's life-giving and life-renewing bounty, in communities of celebration.
In this spirit we should rejoice with those who are rejoicing and weep with those who are weeping, celebrating God's love and care for all creation in the giving, sustaining, transforming and ending of life.
In this spirit we acknowledge that many churches have distorted the full wonder of God's purposes in creation in their theology, their worship of wealth, their misunderstanding of God's blessings, their anthropocentric notions of relations with nature and God.
We therefore seek to reclaim our spirituality that we may be empowered for life in this world of death and destruction.
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