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Texto Previo para Ciudad del Cabo 2010

Redescubramos el Evangelio de la Reconciliation

Autor: Antoine Rutayisire
Fecha: 10.09.2010
Lugar: Kigali | Rwanda
Category: Reconciliación

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Nota del editor: El presente Texto Previo para Ciudad del Cabo 2010 fue escrito por Antoine Rutayisire como una reseña del tema a debatirse en la sesión Plenaria Matutina sobre “Cómo edificar la paz de Cristo en nuestro mundo dividido y quebrantado”. Los comentarios a este texto realizados a través de la Conversación Global de Lausana serán remitidos al autor y a otras personas para ayudar a dar forma a su presentación final en el Congreso.

En su libro The Wounded Healer [El sanador herido], Henri Nouwen habla acerca de ministrar en un mundo herido y dislocado, poblado por una generación de “hombres desesperados”, sin raíces, ministrados por un “sanador herido”. En el capítulo que se refiere al “ministerio de un ministro solitario”, Nouwen escribe: “Debido a que su tarea es mostrar a otros los rudimentos de la liberación, debe tener cuidado de vendar sus propias heridas a fin de estar preparado para cuando se lo necesite. Está llamado a ser el sanador herido, aquel que debe cuidar de sus propias heridas pero al mismo tiempo estar preparado para sanar las heridas de otros. Es a la vez el ministro herido y el ministro que sana […]” (pág. 82). Esta es una descripción adecuada del ministerio de la reconciliación en la iglesia. En cada nación donde se necesita reconciliación, los “ministros sanadores” forman parte de la población y también están heridos. Pero es solo cuando han sido sanados que pueden ministrar sanación a otros al compartir con ellos la experiencia de una vida sanada. Eso es lo que intentaré hacer en este texto previo. El contenido de este texto no está tomado de una perspectiva académica sino que surge de la experiencia de 16 años de participación activa en la sanación de una nación quebrantada, primero como cristiano y predicador, y también como miembro de la Comisión para la Unidad y la Reconciliación Nacional en Rwanda en las secuelas del genocidio de 1994.

Contradicciones en el escenario cristiano: Iglesias florecientes y heridas supurantes

Muchos escritores cristianos de la actualidad concuerdan en que el epicentro del cristianismo se ha desplazado hacia el hemisferio sur. Pero, ¿cómo conciliar este fenómeno con la contradicción que representan las guerras tribales, los enfrentamientos étnicos y los genocidios? ¿Cómo conciliar el gozo de tener las iglesias de crecimiento más veloz con la tristeza de la peor de las historias de matanzas y guerras intestinas? La mayoría de los países africanos con una presencia cristiana dominante se encuentran profundamente heridos. Aunque su apariencia es normal, la sanación es superficial y las heridas supuran bajo la superficie como un volcán a punto de explotar. Lo cubrimos, lo disimulamos, pero las circunstancias continuamente nos demuestran que no estamos sanados. Tenemos iglesias que crecen, pero también tenemos las peores guerras y hasta los peores genocidios. ¿Cómo podemos ser cristianos y aun así vivir con odio e ira? ¿Cómo podemos ser cristianos y convivir con la esclavitud, la segregación racial, el odio étnico y racial, la disfunción familiar y el divorcio? ¿En qué fallamos en nuestra evangelización y discipulado cristianos? ¿Qué podemos hacer para ser “embajadores de reconciliación”? El clamor en este texto previo es por un redescubrimiento del “evangelio de la reconciliación”.

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Palabras clave: Reconciliación, herido, heridas, ministrar, ministerio, quebranto, Rwanda, avivamiento, hutu, tutsi, espiritualidad, divisiones, genocidio, sanación, distanciamiento, perdón, identidad, unidad

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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo Ernesto (3)
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In reference to the Christians not being a good model of relationship, I believe that we are not doing a good jab at all.  For example, there are so many divisions between denominations in such a way that the lost world is getting the negative message about how the Christian should be.  And, not only that, but, most of the non-believers are walking away from listening to the good news of the gospel because the majority of Christians are busier attacking and critizising each other in a way that they forgot the main purpose that God saved them, which is to be the salt and light of the world instead to the stumbling stone.     


11.10.2011
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I think that Antonie is right when he said that the offended people need to be healed by taking their burdens to the cross through Jesus.  In addition to that we as Christians need to proclaim the powerful message of salvation by living a righteous life before those who are in desperate need of salvation.  In doing so, I believe that the non-believer will be able to see the wonders of our all mighty God through our lives as we give a Christ-like testimony in our daily lives.  


11.10.2011
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Concerning a most worthy article, I am move by your caption that depicts the church worldview of how we have treated global evangelism. Most too often we portray form of widow dressing evangelism wherein we look strong in presence, but is devoid qualitative impact. There is a massive need for the body of Christ to give away themselves away to Christ in their deeds and not their words only. The great power of the Christian faith is it’s ability to reduplicate itself in the wining of another to Christ. Failed and corruptible policies often embedded in the traditions of the church must be reevaluated and have a willingness to allow the power of God to work in the hearts of mankind as God has intended.


02.10.2011
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Estados Unidos de Norteamérica

Antoine, thank you for your insight and courage to address the issues that are going on in Rwanda. There is much that the churches of the world could learn from this tradegy. Many of the things you pointed out in your article as being the root cause in Rwanda such as hatred, division, racism and others things, seem to be univerisal in the church today. Many Christians are walking around with that "superfical healing" that you spoke about, but there is a "festering wound undernealth". Is Rwanda truly healing? In your article you spoke about returning to the Gospel. In your article, you made a brief refrence to forgiveness in section 2 number 3. Should there be a stronger focus on forgivness and healing so that the foundation to reconciliation can be laid? What seems to be the focus of the preachers and other spiritual leaders in Rwanda these days? Can you see visible signs of healing? Thanks again for your insight.   


22.09.2011
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Deeply moving! I am wondering about the healing process. How is it going?


28.06.2011
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo David_Benson (2)  
Australia

Thankyou Antoine ... such an authentic and insightful critique of this tragic genocide in Rwanda.  If your humility was the starting point for all involved--and us who stood idly by on the sidelines--then we should have great hope that things will change.

I appreciated your point about preaching the full gospel, and its social implications also.  That if we announce the Kingdom, then we must simultaneously denounce all that is anti-Kingdom and call for repentance.  In this, judgment must begin in God’s house--the church.

Similar critiques lay behind a recent series on the book of Ruth our church explored last month, hitting head on the blessing and curse of friendship where commonality is built upon a foundation other than the crucified Christ and His open embrace (following Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace).  Perhaps this message may be of encouragement: http://www.kbc.org.au/media/message-what-does-love-look-like-2/.


27.09.2010
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@ David_Benson:

This is so true. part of proclaiming the gospel is proclaiming freedom to the captives and social justice for those that are oppressed. But not simply proclaiming it but bringing it to light yourself in your own community among your own people.


11.04.2011
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo Peter_Barney (0)  
Australia

Thanks for this paper. 

I appreciate the sharing from what is a great human tragedy.

I found the concepts useful in reflecting upon engaging with young people "at risk" in my context who are unable to live with their families and are "wards of the state".

Our camping ministry with these young people may be helpfully framed by seeing it as a ministry of healing and reconciliation.


28.09.2010
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@ Peter_Barney:

I think any work with children and youth can be seen as a healing and reconciliation ministry. There seems to be so much hurt in their lives, if not from family, from their education, or friends, or teachers that are in their life. Children are so young and dont understand or heed the need for healing so we must be the guidence that helps them to this.


11.04.2011
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo Maryedemuth (3)   
Estados Unidos de Norteamérica

Thank you.

I especially appreciate equating the ability to forgive with healing. So often we want to rush people into a false sense of forgiveness without letting them grieve through the offense, or experience the radical, soul-healing of Jesus. It’s such a process.


05.10.2010
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@ Maryedemuth:

This is so true, and what a process it is. Sometimes I think we expect immediate grace to show up on our door steps and jump into all of our relationships. But we must realize that becoming like Christ is not immediate and neither are his practices, so we too must be patient allowing Christ to work within us to help us administer healing and grace to others. Even the disciples didnt do this perfectly the first time. Jesus worked them through a process as well.


11.04.2011
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo Jonathan_Pryke (2)  
Reino Unido

Moving and challenging. We have in our church in the North East of England the daughter of one of the Church brothers who ministered in Rwanda for many years and were instrumental in the East African Revival. She grew up in Rwanda, and her love for the country has brought home to me the challenges for Christians that flow from all that has happened. It is powerful reminder to us all that sin goes very deep in the human heart. Our repentance is all too easily superficial. Our discipleship so easily only affects certain areas of our lives. It is a vital task of the church to ensure that our discipleship training and teaching is comprehensive. We all have blind spots. That is one of the glories of the global Body of Christ and our cross-cultural fellowship - we need to help one another to identify those blind spots, that may be easier to see from outside. You say "It is only when people have been healed that they can forgive." I’m not sure. Jesus forgave from the cross. He taught us that we cannot find forgiveness ourselves without forgiving others. A radical experience of God’s grace both enables us to forgive, but also enables us to rely on God’s strength as we confront sin in our churches and societies. For all the suffering and failures, it is astonishing how far the church in Rwanda has come in just over a century since the gospel first arrived.


05.10.2010
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@ Jonathan_Pryke:

It seems as though hurt and pain do run deep and yet we believe that forgivness and reconciliation are meant to be shallow. What a contridicition in order to root out that deep hurt and pain that was instilled in people or nations we must offer an equally deep solution of forgiveness and a hand of true and pure reconciliation.


11.04.2011
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo Michael_H (1)  
Suiza

Dear Antoine

Thank you for sharing the powerful message of reconciliation. The part on rediscovering this gospel was something that I found particularly appealing (and helpful). As you say, the communities need to hear prophetic voices. Still, I was wondering whether the solution could be birthed in the pulpits. I agree, it is an important part of the solution. However, the words of Jesus at the end of the sermon on the Mount came to my mind: It is one thing to hear (and to preach) and another to put it into practise. Maybe modelling and learning to cross boundaries (the whole area of discipleship) could be an essential part of the healing process too? This has been my experience in the setting of an multiethnic Evangelical church.

Blessings

Michael H


05.10.2010
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@ Michael_H:

The greatest omission of the great commision is making disciples I once heard a preacher say. It has stuck with me ever since. We omit the change that develops, and while it is true that we can do a lot better at preaching the doctrine of reconcilitation we could do much better at living it out in our daily lives. We need to "make disciples." Not simply preach to them.


11.04.2011
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo Bradford_Greer (1)  
Estados Unidos de Norteamérica

Thank you for this paper. It is honest and penetrating. We repeatedly see the devastating affects of tribalism, communalism, racism, and ethnocentrism in our world. We also see the divisive impacts of sectarianism in our churches. You have raised a clarion call for us to rise and be those who model and are intentional in promoting reconciliation in our communities. 


11.09.2010
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@ Bradford_Greer:

one of the major things is that this division does happen in the church. Not simply the government, the church holds its poisions too, and we are getting more and more dangerous in the doctrine of reconciliation. We are beginning to track back to earlier times and offer forgivness and reconciliation only at a high price. And some can not afford what we are demanding.


11.04.2011
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo Shannon_L (0)  
Canadá

I too am challenged by your article.  I also appreciated your description of our alienations from Genesis 3.  In thinking through the life that I have lived as a Canadian I have not thought about reconciliation.  I have not had to in the capacity many others have.  And yet, it is something I see is very important. 

On a smaller scale I see the importance in the lives of the next generation to understand and embrace the gospel of reconciliation.  While many Canadian young people do not face genocide, they must come to terms with the home life they grow up in.  There are children who face atrocities everyday.  Seeing Christ with the gospel of reconciliation and healthy discipleship will help the next generation and the church. 

I also appreciated your quote from Henri Nouwen at the beginning.  It was a good introduction to your topic. 


17.09.2010
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo Antoine_Rutayisire (4)  
Rwanda
@ Shannon_L:

Thank you Shannon for understanding that point: reconciliation is not just for us who live in countries that have known ethnic problems, it is for everyone. Some have problems in their families, others in their work places, others just with themselves... we live in an alienated and alienating world and reconciliation should be our lifestyle, not just for some occasions. We all get wounded and thus need healing- what wounds us may different but we all bleed!


21.09.2010
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@ Antoine_Rutayisire:

I feel as though reconciliation is a personal matter as well. We must become reconciled with our past, and future, so that we may also reconcile with others. It is more than just group depravaty it is personal depravity as well.


11.04.2011
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Zimbabue

Thank you so much for such a powerful paper.  It is very vital for missions.  Many times we fail as ministers in that when we go to missions we overlook the background of the nations and we preach amiss.  Many people are hurting and if this is not addressed from the roots, and without the ministry of reconciliation, we labour in vain.

It is also very true speaking from personal experience that without healing its impossible to forgive and reconcile with others.  For 5 years I tried to forgive but could not, each time the people who wronged me did something, it would trigger the pain.  God healed me according to Jer 30:17 and from that time all the pain and hatred disappeared.  Then and only then was I able to minister healing unto others effectively. God bless you!


19.10.2010
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@ chicochico:

This is an amazing story about your hatred being dealt with. reconciliation comes in many forms and forgiveness is one of the major areas that is needed when reconciling to another.


04.04.2011
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo sssircar61 (0)
Estados Unidos de Norteamérica

Thank you for your powerful  and challenging message of reconciliation. How sad it is that Christians are not able to reconcile with other fellow Christians. How can we preach the message of reconciliation to reconcile the people of other faiths with our Savior. God has given his church different kinds of leaders to equip the believers and building his church, until the believers attain the unity of faith and grow  in the  knowledge of our Savior in order to make them mature manhood and grow into the stature of the fulness of Christ. As Paul writes to the Ephesians: "And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes" (Eph 4:11-14).  If this purpose is not fulfilled, then the gospel has not changed our lives. There will be many more such "Rwanda genocide" within the Christian communities in different parts of the world. Let us pray that the Spirit of God will continue to transform the church to be  a true ambassador for Christ to bring healing and  reconciliation to the broken world. 

 


18.10.2010
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@ sssircar61:

I think one of the first things we must teach through the doctrine of reconciliation, is release. We must release the control the ability to have the power of the situation and allow the healing to come from God and the power of forgiveness to be initiated by him.


04.04.2011
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Rwanda

I wrote a reflection on the post-genocide church in Rwanda. My worry is that the church is remaining silent once again in the midst of imense political persecution.

Brothers and sisters, we need your prayers. Romans 8:38-39

http://newsrwanda-nkunda.blogspot.com/2010/10/church-in-rwanda-today.html


28.10.2010
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Australia

Profoundly impacting, especially the scriptural references to 2 Corinthians chapter 5.


21.10.2010
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Sudáfrica

Recognizing the high rate of violence against women does the church promote the African customary notion of the need for men to protect women?  Please read the blog on "Justice for Clergy wives, myth or reality?"


19.10.2010
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Estados Unidos de Norteamérica

Thank you for your amazing and poignant paper!  I’m planning on reading it next week as part of my lectures (I teach a couple of psychology classes at a local community college).  By Providence, it also happens to fit perfectly with current and upcoming chapters and the end of semester projects coming up.  I have honestly struggled to find the best words that express my joy at finding your paper...perhaps the word "validation" is what I’m looking for - because your paper validates my experience of what being a follower of Christ is all about.  Few and far between, few and far between - thank you for allowing me this unintended benefit!


16.10.2010
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo Vijayesh_Lal (0)  
India

I appreciate your article. Thank you so much.


16.10.2010
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Responder Señalizar 0 Pulgares arriba Pulgares abajo MarkMeynell (1)
Reino Unido

Thank you SO much for this paper and for the authentic experience of ministry that it represents.

It is a profound challenge for us to allow the gospel to change and expose our cultural blind spots.


15.10.2010
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