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The Director´s Message
By:
Luis Sagarra |
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Integrity,
social sensitivity, a life full of values, to be free from bad
habits, to love God, to care for our environment, education,
etc., are all actual demands on the life of a person who lives
with purpose. Whatever the government program or job in the
public or private services, they include these inescapable demands,
even though they may only be in your speech.
In
this way, Christians are able to contribute to our society,
in which we live out the spiritual legacy which our faith contains.
Founded and focussed on Jesus Christ and his word, we point
to the Bible as a book in which we find stories which promote
virtues, as a book which supports and affirms those virtues,
demands integrity, sensitivity and which encourages self-improvement
and education for the weak and suffering and combats fanaticism.
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For
us, the Bible isn´t a book of commands which have the intention
of complicating our lives. We have to understand that there is
a huge difference between living a life full of commands and a
life which demonstrates the virtues which the said commands imply,
the orders therefore serve to produce the virtues and not the
virtues for the commands. In true Christianity, the biblical commandments
have the purpose of conducting ourselves to live morally and never
to stagnate in a life full of commandments and laws. Some examples
of these virtues are: freedom, respect, love, trust, truth, integrity,
mercy, faith, solidarity, fidelity, etc. |
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A
religious, but non-Christian, person sacrifices the virtues in
their life and lives a life full of commandments without governing
themselves by moral values, without practical expressions of solidarity
or mercy. A true Christian, on the other hand, knows that the
commandments lead to an expression of these virtues in daily life,
knows that studying biblical stories and drawing out the lesson,
we start to reproduce the values which God tries to promote and
emphasize by means of these stories. When someone demonstrates
a religious and fanatical life without understanding true Christianity,
finally this fanatacism and religiosity results in fatigue, scepticism
and this scepticism produces indifference and boredom, which at
the same time leads to cynicism and apostasy. Sadly, this is the
state that many people are in. |
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Each
one of us is free to make our own decisions, as for myself,
I make the following:
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I choose to be a man of integrity and decide to conduct myself
with honesty in absolutely everything I do.
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I choose to believe God that I am loved, forgiven and protected
by Him.
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I choose to try to build a family which always acts in accordiing
to moral values.
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choose to live a life full of social sensitivity, dedicating
the majority of my efforts to help and produce well being
for those who suffer, for the needy, for the poor, for the
minorities
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choose to always speak the truth, even though this has meant
and continues to mean, that people who decide to love me may
turn into enemies.
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I also choose to forgive those who offend me and continue
living for Christ and for others.
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I choose to be bold and not to waste time complaining and
thinking about what could have been that didn't happen.
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I also choose to bless and respect everyone who thinks and
acts in different ways to how I act.
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choose and decide to defend my convictions with absolute solidarity
and in a gentle manner.
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I choose to be responsible and in my position as pastor of
this ministry, to defend Integración para la Vida against
whatever attitude or person which could stop us from continuing
to be a ministry built on virtues and social sensitivity.
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I choose to offer an attitude of loyalty, sincere care and
support to my friends and to all of those who surround me.
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I choose not to ask those around me to do things or partake
in activities that I would never want to be asked to do or
that would make them feel bad or miserable.
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I also choose to try with all of my strength to be a good
son, a good husband, a good father, a good Christian and a
good citizen.
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I choose to be a person who realises their faults, inabilities
and mistakes, and to correct myself, change direction and
ask for forgiveness when I understand that there is a need
to do so.
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Dear
friend: The heart of God is a heart full of love for you personally,
for me personally, for all of those who suffer. His love is so
great, even to such an extent that he gave his only Son, so that
all who believe in him shall not perish, but have eternal life,
because God didn't send His Son to condemn the world but he sent
him so that the world could be saved through Him. In his salvation,
in his love, he has decided to offer an even higher virtue and
this virtue is freedom. We have complete liberty whether we choose
God or not. We have the complete and utter freedom whether we
choose to opt for his reign or not. |
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Every
person has freedom to choose and therefore has the responsibility
for their own lives. It is not possible to put the blame on no-one
at all because we are given a choice and are therefore responsible
for our decision whether or not to follow God. We should choose
because the reign of God over your life manifests itself in an
expression of virtues and sensitivity to the needs of society
from the point on decision onwards. |
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Through
my years in InPaVi, I have seen many marvels, many blessings,
many miracles, many families restored; tens of thousands of people
helped in different ways, poor people fed, people giving up drugs
and alcoholism; people who lived for themselves and to accumulate,
compete or try to excell who now live helping others by means
of their profession and resources; people bound by pornography
and lust, attitudes which damage and insult people, who are now
free. In times when, according to the statistics, in North America
and Europe, only half of marriages last and of those only half
live in such a way which actually conforms with the promises made
at the start, couples and families which were at breaking point
have learnt, in our counselling sessions, to forgive each other,
to carry out fundamental changes, they have been restored in an
integral manner. Mature or young women who sought to have abortions
have been informed and helped in such a way that we have saved
the lives of hundreds of children who were not killed by their
own mothers. We have also touched the lives of thousands of young
people, encouraging them not to abandon their education, warning
them about the danger of drugs, helping them to reach their goals
in life, to achieve the greatest level of education possible.
We have served hundreds of abandoned or semi-abandoned children,
giving them food, love, accommodation, medical attention, toys,
clothes, education, etc., etc., etc. |
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Because
of all of this and much more, our ministry of promotion of values
and social sensitivity, is without a doubt is a real alternative
of benefit to society and its needs. This is a ministry which
promotes values and sensitivity in the individual, within families,
within societies, in pubic, in businesses, etc. These are the
needs of a world which is constantly fighting and in a state
of war, due to a lack of these fundamental values in their personal
objectives and dreams, creating and promoting more and more
competence.
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In
lue of this, we believe that God raises and shows an answer, gives
a way of life and among all of the alternatives which are offered,
Jesus Christ continues looking for us today, saying: “Here
I am, if anyone is burdened and weary, come to me and I will give
you rest”. If anyone is burdened and weary, if anyone has
not reached the point of living in the plan of plentitude which
God has designed for their life, they should go to Him. If until
today you still can't live in the fullness of life that God has
for you, Christ is waiting for you! Draw near to Him in faith,
Jesus Christ is real! |
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We
live together in a generation which has moved away from God in
their hearts and from the virtues and solidarity with those around
them. However, in the midst of this gerneration, there is a remainder,
who cry out and say: Lord, I don't care what the others are doing,
I want to be faithful to you, I want to be a man or woman of values,
of sensitivity, I want to stand true and perservere until the
end.
For
Christians, it is fundamental to be followers of Jesus Christ,
followers of what is proclaimed in the Gospel. If we make Him
Lord, not only do we call Him Lord, but we also put him above
all other things, we love Him, and make Him the most important
person in out lives, we place Him in first place in our lives,
we crown Him as God over our lives; this is what it is to be a
Christian! This is what it means to make Jesus the Lord!
The dictionary defines the word value in the following way: the
quality of objects and things which give objects worth. To reach
the importance or significance of something. Qualities of the
soul of a man. Habits and dispositions of the soul of a person
whose actions conforn to a superior law.
I finish with a question. Dear friend: you and your life - how
much are they worth? |
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