The emerging church in Latin America: Christ present in the other 3

"We can say that it [the libertarian spirituality] expresses itself in a demanding lifestyle, radical even, that:

 - assumes a simple way of life, but not naïve;

 - experiences the grace of God as an opening to the suffering, debilitated, despised other and seeks a respectful approximation;

- understands the struggle for justice and transformation of structures as a challenge to faith itself and not as something optional;

- understands conversion as a continuous process of change of mentality and attitudes, from the interpellation of God in the other, in whom Christ presents himself to us sub contrario;
- learns to live with the doubt and the uncertainty, without losing to them;
- opens up to the diversity of human reality, taking advantage of the interpretations of other sciences besides theology;
- resists temptation and because of that learns not to judge others, but to perceive the radicalness of what it means to love its neighbour as oneself.
- learns to listen to the word of God and to hear the other with double attention.
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Roberto E. Zwetsch "Missão no horizonte do Reino" in "Teologia Prática no Contexto da América Latina"
ISBN 85-233-0467-3
ASTE, Sinodal Press