Everyone considered the most important thing to be the strengthening of the "inner intellectual-spiritual defense lines", so not to build more schools, raise salaries or renovate churches.
The greatest enemy of the church's message is disinterestedness - stated the pastor president of the synod of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Kossuth radio's Sunday newspaper program. Zoltán Balog was asked about the Reformed national strategy.
He said,
in the last ten years, they have witnessed growth, which is not only, but in a significant part, due to the government.
They thought it was worth stopping for a moment: 32 years had passed since the beginning of the system change, and they wanted to see where they had come and what their main task was to
"as a church, we should not perform a substitute act, but we can really give what is our essence, what we consider most important to this nation".
He said that he was also surprised that the community formulated a spiritual thought.
Everyone considered the most important thing to be the strengthening of the "inner intellectual-spiritual defense lines", so not to build more schools, raise salaries or renovate churches.
These are important factors, but institutions only make sense if they convey the spiritual message that God has a will in the world, and if this is not realized, it will be a tragedy - Zoltán Balog opined.
He said: he is glad that the Reformed Church has already been told, for formulating its own national strategy in addition to the state's, because
the greatest enemy of the church's message is apathy and boredom, not that they speak against it.
It can be a good debate about why the church interferes in the affairs of the state. Their self-interpretation is that the church is not a community for the protection of the interests of its own members.
They are not for themselves, but for those who are not yet members.
Their activity is a mission, it is always directed outwards, added the pastor president.
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