Rector's Letters
Please find below an archive of the Rector's Letters from this and previous months.
« Return to previous page.- 07/06/09 18:27
JUNE
Dear Friends,
Spread the word, God is back. The media in general portray evangelical Christians, such as Ned Flanders in the Simpsons, as society’s losers. But in a just published book, God Is Back: How The Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World by John Micklethwait, Editor of the The Economist and Adrian Wooldridge, its Washington correspondent, the authors argue that the battle between faith and modernity is beginning to swing from “God’s dead” thinking to God is very much alive. Evidence for this, they suggest, is a global reach of Christianity and particularly the rise of evangelical churches from Clare to China.
China is well on the way to being the world’s largest Christian country with some 100 million Christians. Already more people go to church every week in China than are members of the Communist Party. In our own backyard, in Kill, God is very much alive, with people coming to faith in the Lord Jesus and people growing in their faith and joining the God of mission to change the world, from Blackrock to Beijing. At a time like this we need to be reminded of a God who is in control and where purpose for the world is focused on His Risen Son, Jesus Christ. God is not dead, He is alive. Let us be alive in Him!
Yours sincerely,
Ferran