No Patchwork.....please..........

Read Mark:2:21,22
"No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins;but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins."

Christian life is not a patchwork.....
It is not making some alterations in the life...

But it is a new beginning....a beginning which starts from a new space.....
New beginning(new wine= kingdom of God) could not be possible in an old setting or space(old wineskin)

We cannot experience Kingdom of God in a colonial setting and power relations..
The space where we exists is very important...........

New wine is available through Christ.....
But where does it exists....in our old perceptions, values, and theories....

No.....we should change our perceptions, values and theories ...and they must go hand in hand with the Kingdom values....

A new beginning(unshrunk cloth) is impossible in an old framework(old cloak)...
We should change our old framework then only Kingdom of God will be a reality in our midst....

Are we ready to move with a new beginning by giving up all our old clothes( perceptions which discriminates, values, ego, pride,self,greed,accumulation....)?

We are called to deconstruct the evil practices...

Are we ready to deconstruct the sinful constructs or we are comfortable with the exixsting constructs........

No patchwork please...
But a new beginning with our Lord....

We are called to create new premises (where freedom, love, justice, peace, mutual respect and acceptance....exists) instead of holding on the old premises ( colonial, oppressive, dominating, discriminative, injustice, violence ...exists).....

God is active in this history...God is with us in this great engagement....

No patchwork....please....................

Spirituality......

Spirituality does not mean acting as a "superman", but it is hanging on the cross.

The spirituality of Jesus is martyrdom,a lonely death, and the cry of Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani...

Spirituality of Jesus revealed in everyday life, social space, and in this history...

Jesus spirituality is to cast out the demons, the demons that destructs life and oppress the poor...

The cross of Jesus is the climax of his spiritual struggle....

Jesus was not stoned to death as a religious criminal, but put on the cross as a political criminal - a religio-political criminal.....


The temptations of the devil.....avoid taking up the costly discipleship...look for the 'safe life'.....bow your heads in front of satan.....

The new 'spiritual icons' asks us to gain individual and private comfort....
They never asks us to risk our life for others....for the causes of justice and peace......but our God asks us to risk our life for others.....

But Jesus said, "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple"(Luke: 14:26,27).