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Was ist “Radical Welcome”? – Eine Definition
Posted by Vital Effect on Juli 4, 2013
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2013/07/04/defining-radical-welcome/?lang=de
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/ Donnerstag, 04UTCThu, 04 Jul 2013 14:02:30 +0000 4. Juli 2013Your question about street people rings very true. I do feel an imbalance of power – and also an obligation – when a “street person” knocks on the church door or approaches me inside the church.
What I find very interesting is that I do not have that same sense of imbalance when I meet a “street person” in the church’s community garden. There we are on a level playing field. We talk, often I receive help, and never have I felt under pressure to give. What is it about the church building that creates imbalance, and what is it about the garden that creates equality?
Another thought: At the workshop on homelessness on June 22, we learned that poverty is not so much lack of material things, but broken relationships – with God, self, and the world. I think this is true. And it shifts the balance again: We are all poor in some respects, rich in others. There is no more “Other”, we are the same. If I look at a person and see an “Other”, then perhaps I am the poor one whose perception of and relationship with that person is broken.