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Category: Disaster / Topics: Change • Disaster • Nature • Religion
Christchurch and Christ's Church
Posted: February 27, 2011
Exploring the aftershocks in both…
Christchurch, New Zealand has collapsed.
An earthquake rocked its soul.
And aftershocks reduced its pride
to chaos, grief and woe.
There's loss of life, despair and tears
and haunting memories.
What once were viewed as normative
are abnormalities.
Christ's Church is, too, on shaky ground.
That isn't really new.
What once stood tall for holiness
has crumbled. Yes, it's true.
The tremors started long ago
as God's Word was attacked
when some church leaders deemed His Book
as fiction more than fact.
The quaking grew much stronger
when their views on Jesus changed.
Some claimed He's but one way to God.
To them that wasn't strange.
And neither is the way that truth
is redefined at will.
It's relative and up for grabs.
God's voice is often stilled.
Christ's Church foundation will give way
without its cornerstone.
Without commitment to what's right
it's left to die alone.
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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