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Canon Medhat Sabry an Egyptian priest reflects on Jesus and today’s Church

I wonder as I wander through the Eastern Lands, what would Jesus say if he comes to tour our lands?

He will have a good number of question one of which is ‘ what did you do with the peace I gave to you in the Upper Room?’ another is ‘What are you doing to prepare my bride for my second coming?’ and ‘are you doing the mission I sent you to do?’

Jesus is grieving over these lands, the churches and the hearts of the people in the places He walked as He does over the whole world. His church should be His voice in this broken world. We should have our impact on what is happening around us. The world is driving us to an ideology that is quite different from what God intended humanity to have. (Gen 1:28) we have lost our control of events. We are no longer shaping history; humanity is repeating history of injustice, violence and war. We are just watching, raising useless hands that wave and do not pray, that fight against others and do not hold on together.

My prayer as we approach Pentecost is. ‘Lord, help us to understand your purpose for our existence in these Eastern Lands, and may your spirit guide us’.

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