"We Really are His Hands"

This last week, I had a chance to set under the teaching of a pastor who has been loving God's church for some 57 years in full time work. One of the afternoons, we talked about a church in Europe that had a statue of Christ that had it's hands blown off during the war. After the folks returned to the church and saw the damage, they decided to leave the statue as it was, for to them, it was a perfect picture of us today. We are the hands of Christ.

Doing a quick look on the net, I came across this story and picture of a simpler Christ.

It's from a blog written by Liz Nelon

Here is the following blog of the day ...

While in Soweto, we also visited the famous Regina Mundi church, which opened its doors to shelter four thousand children and teens during the violent Soweto uprisings in the 1970s. The authorities entered the church and fired on the children; bullet holes, the statue of Christ with its hands blown off, and the marble altar defaced by a rifle butt still stand as evidence of the violence that happened in this place.

Wonderfully, though, we visited today during a lunchtime service. The altar steps were full of children singing, dancing and praying as their teacher beat an African drum. So although this place is a National Historic Site due to the tragedy that happened here, we found an oasis full of hope and joy this afternoon.

Have a Great Day

David