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What can we learn from the fist 5 years of SAPMC? 2004-2009

2009 is a year full of celebrations. We celebrate Calvin’s 500 birthdays this year.  At Stellenbosch we celebrate the 150th year of Theology. These are such big events that our celebration of the five years of PMC in Southern Africa is almost insignificant. It should serve us a warning that what we do this week is within a much larger historical perspective. In the tradition of H Richard Niebuhr I see my task not to give you a historical overview of events in the formation the founding and growth of SAPMC but to ask questions about God, and to be more specific about the in breaking of the reign of God into historical events, into the everyday life’s of ordinary people in Southern Africa.  I do this with great humbleness, it is not our history, it is not our church it is not kingdom, it is Gods story, the Kingdom of God and of cause Gods people. Lees meer...