I recently picked up the phone to call fellow ministers in our town whom I have never met. I cannot describe to you the wonderful joy I have experienced. We shared our stories, our passion and our concerns.
The power of apartheid was that it kept us apart, so we didn’t know each other and then naturally didn’t trust each other. Slowly, as the barriers started to come down, many of us have made friends of people that were strangers, in the shadows of our diverse community.
Churches mostly would agree that we serve the same God, albeit that our styles may differ and our liturgy may vary. But we all read from the same Book.
Why is it that we cannot work together? Even worse, often we cannot trust each other. Maybe it is because, like apartheid kept us apart, our religious denominations have succeeded in doing the same.
Sitting with pen in hand today I feel better because a few strangers (people from other churches), are now friends. I feel safer knowing that I am part of a big family – God’s family.
Maybe the world will be a better and safer place if all of us reached out to make a friend of a stranger.
“By this all men will know that you are my disciples that you love one another” – Jesus’ words.
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