Need to inspire others

These days we could read in the Gospel of Mark how Jesus chose his twelve disciples and gave them a task.

From the gospels, we also can see how Jesus attracted people by his words and acts, like the many mriracles he did. We shall not be able to attract so many people by miracles, because we are not able to do such miracles. Also with our words, we probably shall not be able to attract so many people.

Naturally, it would be lovely if we also could bring such Good News, like our master teacher Jesus Christ brought.

We got inspired by him and we would love to inspire others also.

A person who wants to inspire others to be grateful or wants to convince others of the value and truth of gratitude to God has to be a person who others see as living a life of struggles greater than their own. Otherwise people dismiss the caller unto gratitude as speaking down to them, hypocritically, from a place of privilege and ease. 

We have to have empathy with those we are speaking to. We have to imagine what they are going through and what they are thinking about. In a certain way, we also do have to anticipate their questions or thoughts. A very important factor in our preaching is also the way of our listening. We do have to be all one ear to the ones we want to convince of the reason to follow Christ.

Some may think it is to difficult to go out and to preach to people. Or they think one has to have a special education at the university. But it is not that one has to belong to the clergy. Even when you would want to become part of elders in a church, there is not such a high need of religious education at a higher institute.

You also do not have to think preaching or witnessing would be too difficult for you, or that you would not be able to cope with it because of too many struggles.

Perhaps for this reason and also because one cannot deliberately put oneself in a bigger struggle than what God has ordained for one already,

Not every person is going to be able to inspire every other person towards gratitude and peace of heart. And perhaps this is also why much of mankind gives authority, in matters of spirit and truth, to the ascetic monk-like figure than to a person living in relative comfort and abundance. 

When just an ordinary person, living an ordinary civic life, that person can connect to the life of others, knowing exactly what they too have to undergo. Their experiences will not come across as other-worldly as they might to clergymen who often have no sense of the daily concerns of ordinary citizens.

Whether such an association between struggle and virtue (of piety and authority) is warranted remains open to debate. There is some merit to the idea that a person who is in struggle or strife themselves would be able to relate to and find authentic and convincing, someone else who knows what struggle feels like. But the association of struggle with material deprivation is a bias and judgment of a materialistic mind and hence a problematic judgment.

You do not have to be in possession of special attractive tools or books to reach people and to tell them about the times to come. A simple Bible is all you need so that you can show the Word of God.

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Please find to read:

1. When a day of darkness and of gloominess shall come
2. When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
3. To step up – Presenting fruitful words
4. Matthew 10:24-31 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Do Not Fear – Preach!
5. Today’s thought July 10 Reading 3 – Matthew 11:4-6: Good news preached to the poor
6. Spread the word
7. Repentance for the forgiveness of sins has to be preached to all the non-Jews in Christ his name
8. Christians having the right heart to call others to go to God
9. Reason to preach #5 Trained to do it God’s way
10. How should we worship God? #6 Preachers and Teachers
11. United helping to spread the Good News
12. In all circumstances preaching Christ
13. From house to house #1: Not ceasing to Preach daily in the temple and in every house
14. Making proclamation as a herald
15. Preach
16. Preaching as Public Speaking
17. Memorizing wonderfully 33 Preach the acceptable year of Jehovah God
18. Great need of the church today is to feed the flock and get our people into the word of God
19. Sharing your big scriptures for tough times
20. Taking as many opportunities as possible to proclaim the Good News
21. Evangelizing in the “Time of the End”

Parish, local church community - Parochie, plaatselijke kerkgemeenschap

Parochie: Parish

ME Parroche paroisse fr L parochia fr LGk paroika fr paroikos Christian (fr Gk stranger, fr par para + oikos house) fr the early Christians looking upon themselves as strangers on earth, their real home being the Kingdom of God.

The ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor; the local church community; a portion of diocese committed to the pastoral care of the clergyman. A district having its own church and minister or priest.




For the first Christians the parish was the house where the 'foreigners' came together.  They looked at themselves as foreigners who stayed here on this earth as temporary residences, or getting this earth in loan, until they could enter the Kingdom of God.

In the Roman catholic Catholic Church the parish became the ecclesiastic order that constitutes part of a diocese, about which a priest has been appointed.
By some protestant groups, it is the ecclesiastic municipality or the church community or congregation.  Also the association is named in the Netherlands once in a while  briefly 'the Soos'. 

By several Biblestudents one speaks more of the church community or ecclesia, by which the inhabitants of a larger territory are meant, that belong to a particular group, or follow their service  in a particular house or church or temple, considered being part of that ecclesia.

In general we can say that it is the independent ecclesiastic municipality of a denomination, under a priest, pastor or minister, which mostly forms a part of a large town or a city- municipality with a separate preacher. 

The parish transforms then the ecclesiastic territory, by the R. Catholic Church as a division of a diocese, about which a priest or legal person is appointed, there, on the order of the bishop, to take care of the soul-service.  This priest becomes named priest, pastor or minister .  The priest and its co-helpers (curates in the Catholic Church) (Elders in protestant communities) form together the parish-ministers, parish clergy or parish-elders. The Roman Catholics, that in a particular Parish have their domicile or seemingly domicilie, are the parishioners; they must turn to for their clergyman matters to the priest of the Parish. 

To set up a Parish for the Roman Catholics , change or to cancel it can only be done by the local ordinarius (the bishop of the diocees).  In the Mission, this church resort seemingly-Parish (quasi-Parish) is than  a part of an Apostolic vicariate or prefecture (Apostolic vicaris and Apostolic prefect).



The parish Church is then that church, that has been built for a particular parish in which the religious service shall be held, and the parishioners be administered the sacraments  (baptism, marriage, etc.) and their funerals are held.

Voor de eerste Christenen was de parochie het huis van de vreemdelingen waar samen gekomen werd. Zij aanzagen zichzelf als vreemdelingen die hier voorlopig verblijven, of de aarde in leen krijgen, tot zij het Koninkrijk van God kunnen binnen gaan.

In de Rooms Katholieke Kerk werd de parochie het kerkelijk gebied dat deel  uitmaakt van een bisdom, waarover een pastoor is aangesteld.
Bij sommige protestantse groepen is het de kerkelijke gemeente of geeft het de kerkgemeenschap of congregatie weer. Ook wordt het wel eens de sociëteit genoemd of in Nederland kortweg 'de Soos'.

Bij verscheiden Bijbelstudenten spreekt men eerder van de kerkgemeenschap of ecclesia, waarbij de bewoners van een groter gebied die bij een bepaalde groep behoren of hun dienst volgen in een bepaald huis of kerkgebouw of tempel, dan als behorende tot die ecclesia worden beschouwd.

Algemeen zou men kunnen zeggen dat het de zelfstandige kerkelijke gemeente is van een denominatie, onder een pastoor, pastor of dominee, welk meestal slechts een deel van een grote dorps of stadsgemeente met een aparte predikant vormt.

De parochie vormt dan het kerkelijk gebied, bij de R.Katholieke Kerk deel van een bisdom, waarover een priester of juridische persoon is aangesteld, om er, in opdracht van de bisschop, de zielzorg uit te oefenen. Deze priester wordt pastoor, pastor of dominee genoemd. De pastoor en zijn medehelpers (kapelaans in de Katholieke Kerk) (Ouderlingen in protestantse gemeenschappen) vormen tezamen de parochie-geestelijken of parochie-oversten. De katholieken, die in een bepaalde Parochie hun domicilie of quasi domicilie hebben, zijn de parochianen; zij moeten zich voor hun geestelijke aangelegenheden tot de pastoor van de Parochie wenden.

Een Parochie voor de Katholieken oprichten, veranderen of opheffen kan slechts de plaatselijke ordinarius (de bisschop van het diocees).
In de Missie heet dit kerkressort quasi-Parochie, een onderdeel van een Apostolisch vicariaat of prefectuur (Apostolisch vicaris en Apostolisch prefect).

De Parochiekerk is dan die kerk die voor een bepaalde parochie gebouwd is,  waarin de godsdienstoefeningen worden gehouden en de parochianen de sacramenten worden toegediend (doopsel, huwelijk, etc.) en hun uitvaart wordt gehouden.

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kerkdorp, kerkgemeenschap, binnen-/buiten-parochie, filiaalkerk, dochterkerk