Rillers uit Rigters: Inleiding

Rillers uit Rigters: Inleiding
(kyk na prente van geweld asook video wat geweld in Suid-Afrika uitbeeld)

Hopelik gaan hierdie reeks oor die Rillers uit Rigters jou help om jou vieswees te aanvaar en aan te gryp. Met hierdie reeks gaan ons na die wreedheid van ons tyd kyk, saam met die wreedheid van die Bybel, eerder as om dit te ontken. Hierdie reeks gaan jou help om kwaad te word, en selfs jou woede te vier en daaroor te praat, te sing, of te debatteer. Hierdie reeks gaan vertel van grusame dade wat aan mense gedoen is.

So ‘n bietjie agtergrond oor die boek Rigters. Die boek strek oor ‘n tydperk van 200 jaar. Rigters verskyn in ons kanon (Bybel) na Josua. Josua se tyd is verby. Die volk Israel het in die beloofde land ingetrek. Hulle het egter vir 200 jaar lank in die huise van die Kanaaniete gewoon. Die Israeliete se vyande was ook nie ver van hulle nie, en het geduldig op hulle grense vir hulle gewag om ‘n vout te maak.

Die probleem deur die hele boek van die Rigters is dat die Israeliete onthou aan God was en die Kanaanitiese gode aanbid het.

Daar is drie dele aan die boek van Rigters:
1:1-2:5 Israel moet na die dood van Josua in nuwe omstandighede oorleef.
2:6-16:31 Verhale oor helde wat gesorg het vir redelike stabiliteit in deurmekaar tye.
17:1-21:25 Vreemde en selfs skrikwekkende verhale.

Die refrein wat telkens oor en oor in hierdie reeks oor die Rillers uit Rigters gaan herhaal is dat die Israeliete gedoen het net wat hulle wou.

Die boek Rigters sluit nie verniet met die vers af nie; “In daardie tyd was daar nog nie ‘n koning in Israel nie, en elkeen het gedoen wat reg is in sy eie oë.” – Rigters 21:25.

diversity in worship and liturgy in small congregations

Cas Wepener: Diversity in worship and liturgy in small congregations

 

Sometimes you as minister feel as if you have been left alone.

Thomas Long se boek: Beyond the Worship Wars.

 

Two diverse experiances:

Big church worship

Small church worship

 

Worship in small conrgegations is already diverse.

Question: Thinking about the already existing diversity from perspective of liturgist.

 

4 Aspects of diversity:

Preaching

All people are in certain respects like…

All other people

There are shared basic human needs

Shared human needs is a comfort for any preacher because there are shared existential needs.

No other people

Intimate relationships between preachers and pastoral care.

Also socio-specific cultural aspects

Work on your emphatic imagination (Cradock) in die ander se skoene.

Some other people

Cultural realities in congregations

Be like an ethnographer and explore

7 symbols to look for;

Historical material

Demography

Stories/interviews

Rituals and liturgical patterns

Architecture and art

Insiders and outsiders

Congregational activities.

For preaching;

Who are the heroes in the congregations

What are the silences,  stories never told

How do people view God

View of the congregation and her mission

Many subcultures…

 

Worship

Why do people go to church?

Mystery

What is amazing is the fact that they do come at all

Is it not a dangerous question

Vital and faithfull congregations make room, somewhere in worship, for the experience of mystery.

Bible is a codeword for God.

People come to church for mystery.

 

Community

A sense of belonging

Community and God rivals

What to do?

A theological sounding

From intimacy to hospitality

Vital and faithful congregations make planned and concerted efforts to show hospitality to the stranger.

It is not good for people to be alone.

People long for warm and intimate.

We must move from a language of intimacy to hospitality.

 

 

Music

Congregational

The congregation themselves are used in worship

The congregations is not an audience, worship is there for active participation.

Excellent

Good music is that which empowers en gives way to express.

If a song is beyond a congregations reach it is not good.

Passion and changed through music.

Eclectic

 

Leadership

Coming from the congregation going to the congregation.

Strong, loving and wise leaders.