Archpriest Theodore Gignadze.Christianity is still incomprehensible to those who are seeking.....................

 

More than two thousand years have already passed since the beginning of Christianity.

Times and epochs change, but through the words of the Lord, the Church continues to exist, unshakable by the gates of hell.

What has changed for the faithful during this time?

Fundamentally, nothing has changed for the followers of Christ: the spirit of this world continues to fight against Christ, and therefore, against His Holy Church, both from within and from the outside.

People are born, they grow old and die, just like it happened centuries ago.

Today, just like in the past, nobody is able to prove the existence or the non-existence of God, because He is beyond time, space and the entire created world, and thus, He is beyond the natural sciences and logic.

Today, faith continues to be a talent, as it has always been, and no technological progress will be able to change the fact that faith is a talent.

Christianity is still incomprehensible to those who are seeking the satisfaction of their religious feelings in the church and accordingly are only concerned with external adherence to God's commandments, while rejecting the freedom that was granted by the incarnated Son of God and preached by the Apostle Paul.

Christianity is still actualized through our personal relationship with Jesus Christ, when we, weary and loaded down with heavy burdens, find rest in Him.

The obstacles that hinder our relationship with Christ continue to be the passions that we inherited from our very first ancestors - the passions of pleasure-seeking, greed and vainglory.

Even until this day, God's kenosis, meaning His extreme humility, the coming of God into this world, the suffering, the crucifixion and death are unexplainable and incomprehensible.

And today, as always, it is difficult to see the Creator of the universe in Jesus the human being. It is difficult to be His loyal disciple, to imitate Him and to resemble Him.

The only thing that differentiates us from the Christians of the old times is the missionary language, because a human being from each era needs to be spoken to in a language that they can understand.

In other words, what requires change is not the spiritual life, but rather the missionary language.

Archpriest Theodore Gignadze