Of Christ or of this world? 224 p

Of Christ or of this world? 224 p

«It surprises, perhaps, the title of the series of speeches I intend to give.

My intention is to contrast what CS Lewis calls "Churchianity," that is, "Church," with the true dimension of Christian identity, and to show how much the first element dominates in and around us, and how imperfect we are as Christians. .

I consider it, indeed, a very important task for me. For years now I have been thinking about the difference between the two, not theoretically but researching my own life, external and internal.

Excerpt from the book

The Church, as Fr. Antonios notes, is not a hiding place that you hide from escaping from life. It is the springboard to go out into the world.

You do not pursue God in it, to burrow under the robe of His omnipotence and collect His high protection.

The Church is not a cover, it is a revelation. It is not a place to forget problems but to remember God.

It is the home of the unwanted, persecuted, mocked Christ, who is persecuted and rejected by all and rests and dwells where two or three are gathered in His own name.

In this house we can touch His love or be embraced by His presence, as He embraced the forty-year-old militant atheist of the book.

In this new book ο Antonios Bloom, metropolitan of Suroz, with a crystal clear speech admits that the ecclesiastical event rots, if Christians do not come out of their safety and if they do not enter the world like sheep in the midst of wolves with their only answer being their Lord.

Not to protect them from death, but to enable them to die the graceful death for another!

Through his words we understand the power that is magnified as weakness, as a voluntary relinquishment of power.

From the epimeter of Thanasis Papathanasiou

Introduction: Fr. Spyridon Vasilakos
Epimeter: Thanasis Papathanassiou
Translation: Thanos Kiosoglou

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