The archbishop of Canterbury needs to read the bible as he has destroyed the church of England he has made it very difficult for anyone else going c of e ministry he should go. Gods word stands for ever. Perhaps you can go and teach me god bless you.
Why can't the church understand the most important thing for Christians to do is ACT like jesus. If on judgment day you tell god you learnt all about him and read everybook written and know everything He will say you wicked servant, and cast you out,and the person who gives one cup of Water exalted to heaven.
Most of us fail at the art of listening is because we fail to master even the basics. Just like it takes effort and practice to public speak, play a musical instrument or master a particular sports….so it goes with listening. Like the presenter says….you can’t just get a book on listening and things will happen……..application is also necessary. Firstly….if you don’t have real sincere time to listen (the game is pretty much over) you also need ‘desire to listen’ that is wanting to extract what’s been said, and you also need the attitude to listen, that is to be enriched with what someone else is saying. This video had an excellent audio quality, it would of been nice if the presenter had used a slide show to colour the presentation.
Being a disciple is your relationship to the whole counsel of God. The message. The ethos. The doctrine. Cumulatively the way of life under Jesus Christ.
Being a disciple is at the heart of every human being, and not only that of religious people. On looking back at most religious sermons and preachings, one seems to conclude that a religious disciple is always talking about and considering a crisis in the material world, and one needs to learn to uplift the human spirit out of a desperate situation. Most philosophers and religions have been existing for a few thousand years, but it seems that they did not do much for the tangible comforts of the family, and always talked in a manner where there were no tangible entities exchanged, but only vociferous spiritual comforts. When I meet people in a church, a hall, or a theatre, rather than meeting them in a practical tooled workshop or a scientific laboratory, I am always looking for any clues, as when one is visiting an old English pub having a drink with the mates. As time goes by, the sing-song gets better as the beer and the spirits flow in larger quantities, whereby, near closing time, the people are semi-drunk or drunk to a higher level, and the spirit will start showing its effect in various forms. Many people love this type of occasional spiritual sing-song and drink and get intoxicated with the social atmosphere, and never take home with them any tangible, guaranteed entity for their material comfort to use when they go back home. I believe that when religious people speak to their audience and disciples, they should start hinting at the importance of giving value to having enough material food, shelter, and protection for themselves and their children. They should treat the audience as being in an apprenticeship. The indentured apprenticeship is an ancient system of on-the-job training going back to the guilds of the Middle Ages. Apprentices - often children as young as 12 and 13 - signed a contract known as an "indenture," binding them to serve a master for seven years, as described in London Lives, in exchange for learning his or her trade. The religious disciple is thus not always given a sermon on how to avoid the crises of existing and living in a poor material world, but learning how to get out of it. More than 75% of Indian families still have no toilets and no running sewers outside their homes and even Britain up to 150 years ago had its sewers running in the middle of the road, and as far as 80 years ago, I remember many homes in Britain not having an indoor toilet and one had to go to the garden shed to meet this natural human requirement. Religions all over the world had a habit of building Splendid Cathedral Churches and Temples but did not care much for the family's tangible guaranteed comforts, yet the religious rituals were all very splendid and so colorful and they still are. It seems in addition to the vociferous services, the musical and singing entertainment was part of the service for those who had, poverty, sickness, and no home comforts. Some Higher members of any church, talk about relations, trying to explain the God/ Man relations in Jesus, and they pontificate for such a long time. They seem to love depicting God as a Powerful. Divine, Spiritual, Poetic, Perfect, Sonata God, who was pretty good to cater for the psychological mental soothing of the human problem but for thousands of years did not do much to provide sewers and toilets and health and a minimum degree of comfort for the disciples. One may still depict an old British film showing the poverty in Britain at the time of Oliver Twist and now there are many videos showing the miserable toilet facilities in India. The Poetic God seems to love living in a domain outside our universe and in people's minds, never bothering to move out and join us. It is interesting to follow and find out who supports the religious institutions these days, is it the state which provides a salary and a pension to the clergy, or is it the collected alms that are donated by the disciples? Because of this difference, there was always that area where even the spiritual aid to the people was lacking, and disciples cannot live on prayers alone. Perhaps Jesus, as a joint effort by God and man should be depicted and explained by Albert's Einstein relation E= mc^2 where an entity may be regarded as, part energy and part matter. Rather than preach and postulate and depict God as, a Powerful. Divine, Spiritual, Poetic, Perfect, Sonata God, who loves to live outside our universal space and time, perhaps we should compromise, and present God as Albert Einstein's God, who can exist on both sides of the equation E= mc^2. If we call God the Father Energy (E) which can be transformed into matter, then that would not only explain that Jesus was God and man, but it would also explain that" We all are made in the image of God", and what is more, every tangible item in our home in the form of an engineered item, including a washing machine, a chair, a pair of shoes a comfortable bed and a toilet is, in fact, Energy/matter relations which could be termed as God himself entering our homes to be with us and to assist us in a tangible, guaranteed manner and not only in a spiritual manner as most Bishops like to talk about. What is more when we die we can say that our mass resurrects back into an Energy form. After all, a mass of coal, oil, or gas can be transformed and resurrected in an electrical power station to feed an electronic oscillator to radiate energy through an antenna for electromagnetic energy to roam the universe after the " death " of coal, oil or gas! That is what our own death is all about, we shall resurrect back to being the Energy God! This would introduce a very useful aspect of Energy/ mass relation E=mc^2 as God, and so in any workshop, the indentured apprenticeship which was an ancient system of on-the-job training going back to the guilds of the Middle Ages would accentuate that God is with us in workshops and at home assisting us with materialistic home comforts. . Apprentices and Disciples can often start as children as young as 12 and 13 - signing a contract known as an "indenture," binding them to learn from a master for seven years, about the Energy God coming into our homes in various tangible and guaranteed shapes. Perhaps Churches and Cathedrals and Video inspirational speeches should think about the material aspect of God's existence, not in the flesh/body/blood part of Christ, but also in all the tangible home comforts we have at home, all as a result of processing matter and Energy in the total silence of a workshop rather than a magnificently decorated cathedral, equipped with a high pulpit, and noisy bells at the spire, to call in the sheep, to just listen to inspirational words, hinting that God is always Poetic and Spiritual and loves live outside out universe! where he is there not to be explained by us mortals! I believe we should see God as Energy and matter who loves to visit us in our homes, where he presents himself to us on the shelves of supermarkets and in petrol pumps and aircraft shapes, where we can cater to the human body and mind, as practical engineers in silent workshops produce better home products. It seems that most people now prefer to deal with the Engineering God who lives in the Universe and in our own homes rather than depicting God as a Powerful. Divine, Spiritual, Poetic, Perfect, Sonata God, who many Bishops and Popes say that God does not exist to be explained but as a gift to treasure and appreciate!
If people were disciples, we Wouldn't need these talks nor the fantasy world of literature, film poetry and allthe other distractions to faith, Faith is faith ,the ast majority of people who follow you are only pretending to understand you that's a waste of your effort, people pretend to be intelligent but they are not they sit in front of you like lemons tryi3to look intelligent. What a waste of effort, and all the chanting at rocks Andall the esoteric lessons, just like little children and their imaginary friends, only the truly faithful understand how they would stop this nonsense if they could but the institution teaches the young ordinands such rubbish how can the church ever understand the teaching of Jesus
Easter is how we justify ourselves. But the scripture foretold many times our treatment of God's son, we are not justified until the whole world Acts ad the ninevites .i think you're making stuff up.
No we have to believe in God, to believe in God is everything, it's about belief in god, believe in god .if people want to speculate, that destroys belief, have faith believe and trust in god .throw the intellectual crap ,theology, philosophy, mystics ,wiseacre vain imagination in the furnace. And believe in god
First of all, my front yard has about twenty tress of Oak and Pine; needless to say, since I have two feeders suspended, my yard is filled daily with the songs of many different birds. I also Have a front porch where I sit and study and write as often as weather permits.. This morning is rather chilly and so I am inside listening to this presentation and as soon as Rev. Williams mentions bird watching, the first chorus of the morning fills the trees outside. Insignificant I know, but had to share this "coincidence."
Any communion with the heavenly host is spirit .the only thing at all that is of any importance is that wr believe, God does the rest ,the church and its ministers need to teach and for that they have to believe themselves, and to do that they need to be in communion whenever they can ,and stop getting involved in useless distractions.
Jesus is my mate and if anything goes wrong or difficult I just engage with him and am immediately in his company although after one still has to deal with the problems ,but one hasnt wasted time worrying,and expect it goes easier.
Unfortunately being a disciple today means to be a disciple of our denomination, the learning Jesus made accessible to children in the form of parables, and the root of the disciples witness, should be our faith ,but what the church has always done is to change it to suit themselves. But once we believe, God takes over we trust him the church has done its job although we may chose to return to praise God on Sunday. The church thereafter have no monopoly on God we are all gods and he teaches us personally, and the bible tells us so,but the church has always tried to grasp power for itself mostly by frightening the laity ,and now they have to because they created a huge industry and institution, which needs loads of money, so the laity are forced to followa human creature and not god through the holy spirit. The church has become secular and dosnt know it .the truth is once people believe God is our Father the churches jobis done and it is now very much just a job with the majority of employees non believers just doing ajob this is nothing like what God intended. He wants us all to show our trust in him by giving up our ow n will and doing his.not the priests will ..Jesus did his father's will only he was not a person in his own right there is nothing to learn about, replace learn with trust as Jesus did.
It is hypocrisy that the same church people who donate their time money and aid much publicised in the press exclude the same people from worshipping along side of the churches they own
The other letters he speaks about are not inspired by God, 2 Tim 3:16. Does this man even believe that God created us, I think he accepts that God started evolution. No wonder Churches are emptying!
Such a lovely voice. You can listen to Dr Williams all day. Richard Burton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dr Rowan Williams, all from the same area of South Wales. There must be something in the water!
The "church" erased the history in its anti-Semitic bid to get on Rome's coattails. James' decision in Acts 15:20-21 tells the tale: They obviously were still going to the synagogues on Sabbaths. EVERYwhere that Paul went, where did he go first? The synagogues. Do you think that's because he was Christianizing the Jews there? Do you think the Jews in charge would have been okay with that? But yet, he went to the synagogues week over week. But the erasure of Jewishness demanded that stop. We know that the church was still doing Sabbath in the 4th century; otherwise Constantine wouldn't have to had to issue an edict making Sabbath worship illegal. Celtic Christians were insulated and were still worshipping on Sabbath into the 8th century at least. Paul affirms being a Pharisee and NOT a Christian in Acts 23; he doesn't confirm Christianity to Agrippa when Agrippa says "You almost convince me to be a Christian."
A very enriching talk and thoughtful questions and answers from Dr Williams. I certainly will share with our home study group here in NZ. Thank you very much.
“Orange man so bad! Me love skyrocketing gas prices and border crises!” Dude please shut up. You really think a Welsh bishop gives a hoot about American politics?
"Me don't love" liars and cheats and inciters, including those who have never made a serious profession as a Christian, merely let themselves be embraced by fundamentalists. A Christian churchman shouldn't either. Perhaps that's NOT a MAGA hat on the bookshelf. Only Rev. Zabriskie and Greenwich Church know for sure.
Im not particularly religious but I think Rowan Williams is completely brilliant. I love listening to his perspectives As a Welsh person myself, I’m very proud to think we share the same country of birth.
@@tangobravo5752 Yes, he does. Frequently comments in international politics, and the role of Archbishop of Canterbury is as public, quasi-political figure. He also subtly digs at Trump within the first minute by prefacing his discussion of apprenticeship with its newly-acquired negative association with Trump. Further, he has sharply criticized Trump elsewhere for ‘idolatry’.
The following pieces of information are very related to the ancient scriptures and advanced technologies and will be able to prove the genetic experiments carried out along a very long time on humans as well as on many other living creatures by the fallen angels and their nephilim. In tunnels and underground bases many genetic experiments have been secretly done. The geoglyphs of the Black Desert are dated approximately 8,500 years old. They comprehend a huge area, mainly in Jordan, as well as in the neighboring countries. They are made with stones of basalt in order that they can last for a very long time and the wind and the sand of the desert neither cover nor erase them. They can only be seen from outer space through satellites and high altitudes. Archaeologists don't exactly know nowadays what they represent. According to a researcher these ruins really represent embryos of several species in different stages of development and will be able to shed light on the origin of the human being and our planet. When it will be officially confirmed by biologists, this discovery will constitute an important reason for disclosure and make a big shift in the current system and geopolitical order. Description (10 minutes): pontes-canosa-research.blogspot.com/2018/04/revelations-with-virtu-pontes-jordan.html
