The Belhar Confession
We believe that God has revealed himself as the One who wishes to bring about justice and true peace among men; that in a world full of injustice and enmity He is in a special way the God of the destitute, the poor and the wronged and that He calls his Church to follow Him in this; that He brings justice to the oppressed and gives bread to the hungry; that He frees the prisoner and restores sight to the blind; that He supports the downtrodden, protects the stranger, helps orphans and widows and blocks the path of the ungodly; that for Him pure and undefiled religion is to visit the orphans and the widows in their suffering; that He wishes to teach His people to do what is good and to seek the right...
Reggie read this to close our time together. It's part of the Belhar Confession which came about within the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa in 1986.
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On Belhar...
Belhar is the place where this confession were born, a township on the Cape Flats, in Cape Town. It was articulated in Afrikaans at birth but there is an English translation that deals with the sexist language in the original text. You will find it at http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/confession/belhar.pdf
Another more recent confession on globalisation and economic justice is birthed in here Africa of course the Accra Confession adopted in 2007, in Ghana.
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