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Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation is committed to:
- direct the Church's attention to alleviating the extreme poverty of the world. (Matthew 25:31-46);
- make explicit the Christ-centeredness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), believing that for Christians today following Jesus involves commitment to the MDGs, and commitment to the MDGs involves commitment to Jesus (John 10:10);
- turn life around (conversion) at the individual, congregational, diocesan, national, and global level for the sake of the poor and suffering of the world. (Luke 18:18-23).
EGR invites individuals, congregations, dioceses, and other institutions of The Episcopal Church to enter into this Rule of Life as a way of living out these commitments.
The Rule is as simple as it is radical in that it reflects the heart of the Gospel and calls for a comprehensive personal and institutional response.
Click here to commit yourself, your congregation or your institution to the Rule.
The individual, congregation, diocese or other institution of the Episcopal Church pledges to:
Pray: Regularly hold before God the Millennium Development Goals and pray with an unrelenting intention for the poor.
Study: Undertake regular education on issues and faithful responses related to global poverty.
Give: Make sacrificial and regular financial contributions to help achieve the MDGs, including annual support to Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation to build the movement.
Act: Direct one’s life and activities by agreeing to:
*Connect:Seek to engage in real and tangible ways with the impoverished and others committed to the achievement of the MDGs;
*Witness: Speak, write, create, and make life choices that advance God’s mission of global reconciliation through the MDGs;
*Advocate: Bring before secular and church bodies your personal and institutional commitment to meet the MDGs.
2 comments:
my belief is that it is crucial, as a Christian, to honor the path any person chooses to connect with a higher power. to me, 'conversion' is about attempting to utilize inappropriate control, and a judgment towards those who think differently abt God. who am i to say the path of another is not a correct path. the need to 'convert' seems to be about insecurity, nothing else. just my 2 cents.
I'm not sure that "conversion" is about "inappropriate control." I had not even noticed the word "conversion" which here seems to be regarding "turn life around" "for the sake of the poor and suffering of the world."
Semantically, "conversion" can be a word loaded with meaning about making people believe in Jesus only. I do not endorse that view, but I am for this endorsement of the MDG's by the Episcopal Church.
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