Statement of Faith and Mission
We believe in God Almighty and Sovereign Lord who is perfect in love and passionate for justice and the sovereignty of people envisioning God with the eyes of the oppressed and the marginalised and as the empowering God who suffers together with those who suffer, enlisting them as partners in the process of redemption reconciliation and recreation.
We believe that Jesus brought this knowledge of God and keeps calling everyone to turn towards God, to work for God´s plan for the whole creation. We are challenged by the humility of Jesus who overcame his culture conditioning and all commonly help prejudices by willing to learn even from the despised and rejected.
We are infused by the same confidence which was present in him that the powers of evil (i.e. of false religion, corrupt, partisan and authoritarian politics, Dalits being treated as civtims of oppression, the culture of male dominance, capitalist exploitation…) will be eliminated through our ministry empowered by God.
This ministry of this kind lifts up the Human one, i.e. we have come to learn that Jesus´ understanding of His cross of the lifted up Human one, meaning: He is always seen as lifted together with all those who are victims of the powers of domination and injustice. It is our task to proclaim and interpret this partnership of the Human one with the oppressed, in God´s process of redemption.
It is our fond hope that a better understanding will emerge among all Christians and that there will be many who will seek to have their names enlisted in the book of life of the Lamb Slain from the Foundation of the World. This alone is the way to safeguard ourselves from becoming servants of the Beast bearing the mark of 666.
We draw inspiration from the manifold struggle of people´s movements who organise the most oppressed sections and work for alternative development in harmony with nature through their constructive work, even under conditions of heightened repression and shrinking democratic spaces.
We oppose the emergence of an arms race especially nuclear arms and nuclear energy in the subcontinent. We try to learn from the experiments in alternative agriculture, medicine, and education and from the alliance building across the barriers of caste, language, religion and ideology.
We strive to use our institutional resources in line with the tenets of alternative development and ecological sustainability.
We dedicate ourselves to a vision where nature can praise its creator and people can live in creativity and peace.
Let there be Life.
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