(ACNS) The second full day of the Cape Town 2010 Congress focused on the role of the church in the ministry of reconciliation\u201d\u201dreconciliation of women and men with God\u2019s creation, reconciliation between people of different economic status, and reconciliation between people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds.<\/p>\n
Ruth Padilla DeBorst, the General Secretary of the Latin American Theological Fellowship, began the day by leading participants through a study of Ephesians chapter two. She provided thoughtful insights about the nature of God’s transformative power in changing people and societies.<\/p>\n
\u201cJesus made peace by doing justice, by restoring to rightful place and right relations those who were being deprived of them by unjust systems, human greed and abuse of power,\u201d\u009d Ruth Padilla Deborst said. \u201cGod lives wherever men and women together allow the Community-of-love to imprint God’s image on them, to speak reconciliation into being in their midst, to tear down all humanly constructed walls and spiritually bolstered exclusions so that unity becomes visible, to remind them that once we were all together in death and that our lives, our value and our purpose depend entirely on God’s unmerited grace. God yearns to build the world church today into his earthly dwelling place.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n