The city is a scene in which stories are constantly being constructed.
Everyday people come and go in an incessant dance of apparent monotony.
Step by step they go producing chronicles of sadness and joy,
of hope and despair, of affections and disappointments; stories of existence.
An existence that is lived among the streets of a wild city;
behind the walls and doors and in every corner.
All are filled with memories and dreams.
The past and the future merge in a single moment,
in an ambiguous and disconcerting present;
and yet, encouraged by the hope of discovering better horizons.
The scurrying of a multitude of faces; diverse, different, complimentary
complimentary and behind each one is brewing a story. Traits, experiences, a destiny.
All the while, we are confronted by the same reality;
one of love and grace,
of liberty…
of Him.
Among Us
ENRIQUE PAREJA BLANDÓN Professional Drummer
My name is Enrique Pareja.
I am a professional musician.
I recently graduated, thanks to God, after going through a mountain of stuff.
I have been a drummer for many years, I don't know how to explain when I started,
because I started with some drumsticks in my house.
In the beginning, I never practiced with a drum set.
When I sat at a drum set it was like,
"Wow, what is all this? How is this played?"
It was the only career to be studied.
I was studying other career paths and I realized that no,
I had to study music.
I believe that everything started there.
The way one plays, the sound, musical styles come from the music one listens to.
There are groups that I like a lot, and so I am always listening to them and detailing what it is they are doing.
Falling Up and Jars of Clay are always playing.
Music is, as we say, ungrateful.
If someone, as a musician, does not sit down every day to study the instrument, and do the exercises,
there comes a moment in which it goes cold and it is as if you never played in your life.
The most important moment for me was the day of my recital;
for many reasons…
I was finishing my process of formation,
but most of all it was the people that were there.
Truly, I never thought that the theater where I presented would be almost full,
but I felt the company, I felt that everyone was there my family came from Armenia.
and so it was a very beautiful moment.
Jazz, started by an Armenian friend that was a flautist, Jorge Mario.
He was very passionate about jazz, he liked it a lot,
and he started giving us jazz theory and harmony and all that.
From there I started listening to the jazz greats,
among which the one I like most is Miles Davis.
It was like studying, because on the drums, it is one of those musical genres that allows you to play
and do an infinity of mixes and rhythms...
Another thing is language.
I believe that it is the music that has allowed me to interact with other musicians.
In the movement of Jesus, the lives of people are at the center
The human being is above the scripture and tradition.
Tradition and scripture, the Torah, have been given for the sake of man,
it says it in various ways.
The fulfillment of the law is given precisely in the experience of life itself.
He was in the womb of a woman like any other human being,
so he passed all the stages of an embryo.
Something very interesting, is that his father, Joseph, had a job. He was a carpenter
Luke and Matthew speak of Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph the carpenter.
But Mark dares to say that Jesus is not so much the son of a carpenter, but rather that he is the carpenter.
So we see a young man, that started, as the eldest of the family,
learning the trade of his father.
He had to be like us in all things,
to be a compassionate and faithful high priest in the service of God,
to atone for the sins of the people.
As he himself was tested, he can help those who are tested.
He is an apostle and high priest of our confession.
He is faithful before God who appointed him.
He is in charge of the house,
and we are of that house if we maintain confidence and rejoice in the hope that he is.
We have a high priest that sits at the right hand of the throne of God.
He is minister of the sanctuary and the true dwelling.
He is the mediator of the better covenant founded on better promises.
He has come as the highpriest of future goods.
He, through a better and more perfect dwelling, not made of hands, not of this created world.
Carrying not the blood of goats and calves, but his own blood
he entered once into the sanctuary and forever achieved the final and definitive rescue.
His blood, that by the eternal Spirit was offered without stain to God,
will purify our consciences of the works that lead to death
so that we pay tribute to the living God.
He is the mediator of a new covenant so that we may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
He appeared before God on our behalf,
was offered to take away the sins and to save those that wait for him.
We have dehumanized ourselves.
A very great dehumanization.
So God has to take the form of humanity, because Jesus is nothing other than the human face of God,
to show us how to be more human.
One time in the synagogue of Nazareth, Jesus opened the scroll of the prophet Isaiah and taught what was his message.
That was his agenda and was what he showed; what he tried to do and instituted for his followers
was: The Spirit is upon me because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor, liberty to the oppressed,
announce freedom to the captive and the year of jubilee.
announce freedom to the captive and the year of jubilee.
There is a part in the text of Isaiah that says: "and the year of the Lord's vengeance."
But Jesus did not say that; he omitted that, because he is speaking of a coming grace.
And that grace he begins to call the Kingdom of God.
I got up, ate breakfast with my husband and we got ready to leave,
I come to work and later I come here to receive appointments.
That is basically what I do every day, Monday to Saturday;
now Sunday is different.
Let's say there are already norms or something that is already established about how one should design.
Then in Paris, London or New York they dictate a number of trends
and then one takes these trends and is guided through the year.
I don't do it like that.
I design thinking in my moment in which I am living.
Truthfully, I do not think that what I studied was what was going to determine my future economically,
but for 6 months now since I left the university.
Of all the situations that I could have faced, my mother really was the person that has given me the best advice.
My husband also, but he is a musician, so he is sometimes loftier than me.
God's help, I say that is the only thing that has maintained me in my growth – and not the other way around.
Each year his family travelled from Nazareth and travelled to Jerusalem.
Like all Jews, to celebrate the Passover or one of the many festivals that the Jews celebrated.
At 12 years old, he stayed in Jerusalem
and the caravan marched to Nazareth where his parents realized Jesus had stayed behind.
The fussed at him, "Boy, you scared us. Where did you stay?"
Jesus surprises us with an answer that reveals the identity that he clearly had of himself,
"Why are you looking for me? It is necessary that I am about my Father's business"
Now observe that his earthly father is Joseph and he was there.
Now Jesus says in the business of my father, but he is not in carpentry but rather in the Temple.
How we make the Kingdom of God as I live and experience it and to relate
it not only vertically but also horizontally.
So, this comes to be an important issue
and for this reason Jesus breaks with the paradigms of the merely vertical
vertical and begins to connect people that do not have access to the official religion.
We have lost his humanity, his relationships with the people,
his daily teachings.
And instead we have highly abstract discussions.
He grew in his presence like a sprout, like a root in dry soil.
By his blood, we have free access to the sanctuary.
By this new, open path that he opened for us though the torn temple veil. His body.
We have now been made free from the useless live we had before.
Not with some saving idol of gold or silver, but with his precious blood.
Lamb without blemish or defect.
Through him, we believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified him.
He is the living cornerstone, rejected by men, chosen and loved by God.
He bore our sins on the cross, taking them into his body,
so that we may die to sin and live for righteousness.
His scars heal us. He died for our sins.
The Just for the unrighteous to take us to God.
He suffered bodily death,
but arose in spirit.
He received honor and glory from God the Father in the voice that came from the almighty when He declared,
This is my beloved Son, my chosen one.
To Him be the glory now and forever.
He offered his life in sacrifice so that our sins could be forgiven.
Not just ours, but the sins of the entire world.
This is the promise he made us.
Eternal Life.
The Jewish religious leaders of his day were strong critics of Jesus.
It is clear that Jesus had a strong conflict with the authorities, and it is clear that this conflict brought him to his death.
When Jesus criticized the Pharisees, he used prophecy, another religious tradition from the Jewish people
that was present in the history of Israel but had always been in conflict with the official religion.
Prophecy in the Old Testament, the classic prophecy from the 8th century,
for example, was always in conflict with the political authorities and the religious control
that was tied to the political rule.
This was clear in how Jesus used the Torah.
Recall the prophet who said: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice."
The fulfillment of the Law is in love.
In this, Jesus shows us something very interesting.
He is not a revolutionary just because.
He did not come to destroy the paradigm but to live within the structure,
to coexist with the religious leadership, but to reclaim the true element of what the temple should be.
"for my house should be called a house of prayer."
But then he also cites the prophet [Jeremiah in that the money changers had turned the temple into a] "den of thieves"
In the same way, he is in conflict with the Pharisees and with the pharisaic movement
as to the following the Torah up to a certain point.
Jesus, as a man, also had a personality and a defined character.
If his identity was defined, knowing who he was and what he came to do, his personality is what it is.
Consider a serious Jesus, a prototype with a grave face,
but Jesus' humanity implies the feelings of being human such as rage, joy, and enjoyment.
Jesus rejoiced when he saw his disciples serving and with the power and authority that he had delegated to them.
He delighted in telling that the Father gave these things to children and kept them from the wise.
He is a Jesus who can have fun.
Through weddings, I found that pleasure and delight for the love that people live in the mist of their event and preparation.
I saw the joy of their families that joined in favor of the couple. This I really enjoy.
After all this time, I have learned to let things happen and not to interfere,
but to let them flow. My job is to document and record.
I started photography when I was abroad studying marketing and advertising.
For me, moments are very important; I mean, the expressions.
Each and every single tear, even though this sounds cliché, and every smile are very determining for a good picture;
because it is that expression that fades away.
I never thought that I was going to end up like this; because I do now photography for living and this is my great passion.
Well, I guess that on this road of knowing Him,
He fulfills my time and projections
My then and now are so different.
On this road He has changed me; He has given me a different perspective about what my life was then
and what my life is now in Him as my main Presence in life.
Jesus talks and teaches with his tender love
He heals people's wounds, people's social wounds
He heals the wounds of the blind and of people with disabilities in general. He heals the wounds of the one with leprosy, widows, little girls, etc.
He heals the wound because that is Jesus' project.
Jesus was a magnet for the sinner.
And he still is.
Because the one that is disregarded, despised, uncomprehended, cast aside, and unloved
is the one who needs Jesus. And Jesus is looking for them.
I like to see the human Jesus because he is not a distant Jesus.
He is not an untouchable Jesus. He is not an incomprehensible Jesus.
He did not come from another planet and landed with meteors.
No. He became human like us.
If someone felt ever the pain, He knew the highest pain at the cross.
He was crowned with thorns, and His crucifixion and trial lasted for over two days.
Mistreatment, agony, anguish.
So, any pain humans may feel, whether it is emotional, physical, familiar, or social, Jesus is there.
That is why the invitation for us is to the life according to the cross.
And a life according to the cross means: I accept the price of coming to terms with others.
Constitued Son of God by the Holy Spirit, with power from resurrection,
God set Him aside to make His blood the expiation instrument for those who believe.
We have faith in God who raised Him up from the dead, in the one who gave Himself for our sins and resurrected to make us righteous.
God makes us participate of the victory of His Son and spreads everywhere the aroma of His knowledge;
because we are the aromas of the perfect Lamb who was offered to God for those who are saved.
He is the fragrance of life that brings to life.
The same God who ordered the light to exist in the dark is the one who brought light to our hearts
so we can reflect His glory as it shines in the face of the anointed one.
God was, through His Son, reconciling the world with Himself
not taking into account the sin of men and entrusting us the message of reconciliation.
I got into the world of drugs trying to fulfill the empty space my mom left.
This made me fall in crime and then in jail, Bellavista, in Medellín. This was the way I came to the city.
Going to jail, at first, was like a tragedy. Everything was over.
But then when I knew the Lord,
when I started studying the Bible with the other interns,
and I got to know the entire Bible said, then I changed my perspective of jail.
Later I started to see…jail was a blessing.
I asked the Lord for something and there it was when He gave me the art of wood crafting.
I started working with my hands: and with the same hands I had caused so much harm,
I started building a family. That was how everything changed.
He changed me; He changed my life, turned my sorrows into dancing, my mind-set, and my work.
Their process of change was through what they were seeing.
They saw me causing harm and on the wrong path.
If I had talked about the gospel and about God, this wouldn't make them change.
When I was wood crafting, when He taught me wood crafting,
He told me that they wouldn't change because of what I said, or how beautifully I spoke,
but for my testimony.
What is divine fits and is contained within what is human.
Jesus is human. Within Him lives, and there the term is: house of, the plenitude of divinity.
Then the body, the experience of life itself is the place where the divinity happens
and where the relationship with the Divinity must happen.
When a man with leprosy was coming into the city had to yell that he was with leprosy.
That a severe issue of alienation.
Leviticus says that the one who touches a leper would become impure.
A man with leprosy gets closer and tells Jesus: Master, if you are willing, you can heal me.
And He does not only say: "I am willing, be clean", but also He touches him.
That means, it is a challenge to the law, to the power.
Because Jesus cares more about people than laws.
This Jesus – of family and society – a Jesus that saw as well injustice,
a Jesus who sees abandoned people,
a Jesus who told the parable of the Good Samaritan after seeing society's despise and indifference towards the needed ones.
A Jesus who fed the hunger,
a Jesus who looked after the rejected woman, like the Samaritan woman;
A Jesus who dared to challenge social paradigms.
That is the Jesus we see in the Bible:
the Jesus who goes further than the altar, the sanctuary, or the one who stands out of the cave or out of the four walls of the temple.
And this is the Jesus we believe in,
He is the Jesus who has identity, character, and personality.
If someone is lacking one of these, he can find identity in Jesus.
Because this is true as well: Jesus defines us as sons of God and gives us identity as people.
My name is Daniel Herrera and I am a professional physiotherapist. I am as well mountain-trail running.
In all of this mountain stuff, I have been around two-three years.
First year I started hiking up the mountains,
and now, two years ago, I run ultra distance category.
There are half distances and short distances that range from 10-12Km, vertical Km and half distances of 21Km.
From 42Km, that is mountain marathon or normal athletes, comes the ultra ones.
Then, those cover longer distances than 42, Km. It could be 120 or 360Km.
You fight against your body that is telling you at each moment that you won't be able to make it,
that it's too hot, too cold, that you don't have enough food, or that you are not properly hydrated
and then when you reach the finish line, you see the whole running process, you made it. That's the ultimate satisfaction.
More than competing and being an athlete, it's about having good friends.
Making new friends around the globe and being able different mountains.
It's like the pursuit of the perfect mountain.
Well, right now our health system is… How long does it a last a doctor's appointment?
Less than 5 minutes and he never really sees you.
What I do as a change is first looking at that their eyes and ask how they are feeling, what their symptoms
what's new, if they feel better. I feel their body, because it is really important that you feel their body.
And from there we start, not as physiotherapist and patient, but as friends. Being able of truly helping them with their pain.
And at the end, they will always count on me, not only as a health professional, but also as friends.
As a physiotherapist, I work with pain.
Jesus, as the highest model about pain...
He died for us and went to the Calvary, and all of that was very painful for Him.
And when I see a patient with a back, knee, ankle or whatever pain they bring,
I also see Him as healer.
He has placed that on me as well, through my hands. Being able of helping, healing, alleviate people.
He is tattooed in the history of men with crimson ink.
He disguises himself as a necessity, he dresses in illusion.
We can find it in every face, in the depth of the eyes,
in the beauty of smiles, and in the desolation, creating hopes.
He is a reality immersed in each life,
the sounds of everyday tones, a melody that announce Him, the colors shine exhibiting the magic of His uncontainable nature.
He appears in the midst of the darkness, announcing light.
On the streets, He picks up the fragments of broken hearts,
to recompose the soul of a humanity interrupted by the oppression of a chaotic world.
In every step, in every instant, everywhere, we can find Him.
He is on the sidewalks of our daily living.
In the footprints of our steps.
He is among us.
Jesus taught us about another life.
And I think that it is the gospels, the key to return.
We have four, and there are four different ways to draw near to Jesus, the historical event of Jesus.
How he lived in, let's say, the first century, in the ministry there for the 30 years.
And those 4 versions read of Jesus in the light of a concrete reality.
The people went out in search of a miracle and they found the miracle,
it wasn't necessarily a mystical experience
but in reality they found the solution to the problem of everyday life.
Food, fish, being healed. We have made these experiences mystical.
But really it's something really concrete in the life of the people.
It's what the people were looking for in everyday life.
Health, peace, and it's there where Jesus shows the experience of the divine.
Not the divine flying, ethereal, with strange ways,
but the concrete lives of people being rescued in their dignity.
The case, for example, of the woman with the flow of blood.
It says that she was a women that had been having the flow of blood for 12 years.
In the Old Testament, if the women had the flow of blood she had to leave the camp and is considered impure.
But this women was like this for twelve years.
That is to say, she could not touch or be touched.
She couldn't live with her family, she could not have a husband, she could not have children,
it was a social problem,
a problem of exclusion.
Jesus is healing a girl that is twelve years old. He resurrects her and like this, she comes back to life.
In the moment when the girl is going to be a women, she dies, Jesus calls her back to life.
But when He goes to call the girl, He feels that someone touches Him.
And this someone that touched Him, is the women that was excluded for twelve years.
And He says "Who touched me?"
The women very fearful says" It was I."
And Jesus didn't reproach her, but He said, "Your faith has made you well."
And this healing was not only a healing of sickness, but it was a social healing.
That is to say, this excluded person that did not have access to our community,
can now be touched and can touch, now is healthy, now is part of our group.
One, learns to encounter God everyday, it is a hard job.
And more for me, I am distracted like a fly. I am already in a different conversation.
And so, how to take, how do I tell you, the routine, to have this close relation with God.
What God generates in you, is everything, full of love and He is able to do this for other people.
Hearing is like, in the silence in what you must hold. When praying, for example.
When really, we are aware of His presence with us, instantly everything changes.
When we have this awareness that we can be calm, that we lack nothing,
that we can rest in His arms, that He sustains us.
This is the greatest value for me, that He sustains me.
There, how in all the uncertainty, and all the restless desolation, you feel safe.
Together we have a relationship where He has taught me to live each day for Him,
and I love, like, I enjoy all the days of my life with Him.
Well it's something that people know, I am somebody who likes to listen to comments
and that I like to listen to people.
I not the one that fixes the lives of people but at least if I support,
and if I listen, I try to give comfort and the comfort that comes from the love of God.
God for me is my Savior.
God for me is a friend that listens to me, a friend that knows me,
a friend that forgives me, a friend that lifts me up.
It's for Him I want to do things for the rest of my life.
The great achievement of Jesus was, call and assemble the people that lived this experience and make them a community.
There we would be called to this kingdom of God that is inclusive, that is healing,
that also is full of beautiful stories, relationship oriented, well constructed, that invite more than anything to spring life,
to birth, and always to new birth, to renewal and to encounter with the senses.
Taken for granted. We had Him for nothing.
To him, who endured our suffering and carried our sorrows.
We had Him for a disease.
Hurt by God and afflicted.
Abused, He endured.
Without arrest and without trial, took him out of the way.
Who planned His destiny?
They plucked Him from the land of the living, for the sins of this people he was wounded.
They buried him with the wicked and gave him a grave with the evildoers.
Although He had not committed any crimes, nor were there any lies in His mouth.
For His actions are in the light, he's satisfied to know.
The innocent servant will be restored all, because He was charged with our crimes.
For this, a portion among the great will be assigned to Him, and He shall divide spoil with the mighty.
He bared His neck to die, and was numbered among the sinners.
He, on the other hand, was pierced for our rebellions, crushed by our crimes,
on Him was laid the punishment that heals us, and by His scars we have been healed.
He had no voice like a lamb, carried to the slaughterhouse being brought to the slaughterhouse, like a sheep mute before the shearer.
God has spoken to us through Him, His son, who named the heir of all, and for whom the universe was created.
He is the reflection of His glory, the same image of all that God is.
He maintains the universe with his mighty word, purified the world of it's sin,
took a seat in heaven at the right hand of the heavenly throne,
He is crowned with glory and honor and released those, who by fear of death, spend their lives as slaves.
The crucifixion was the death for the criminals.
The political criminals. It was the death for the slaves who rebelled and for the rabid dogs.
The cross is cruel but it is ignominious. There was no death more shameful.
He died crucified, and that is going to be very important to try to extend His message.
Jesus died crucified between bandits
The Greek word is Lestes, it could translated as thieves, but really the best translation is insurrectionist or revolutionary
Then, to die as a criminal, like a failed rebel against Rome, as well as religious heretic.
Jesus takes the shame, the blame of the world that has rejected God.
We love because He loved us before.
God destined Him, with His blood, to be an instrument of atonement for those who believe.
We have faith in He who resurrected from the dead, delivered us from our sins, and resurrected so that we can be justified.
Everyone who has placed hope in Him, He purifies, just as He is pure.
e's manifested to take away sins, He did not have any sin.
We have known what love is in that He gave His life for the love of us.
God has demonstrated the love that we have, by sending to the world His only Son so we can live.
There is no condemnation for those who belong Him,
to those who he chose, their destiny is to reproduce the image of His Son, in the way that he was, the firstborn of many brothers.
Neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities,
neither present nor future, nor powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love God has manifested.
We are at peace with God, on behalf of Him.
God showed us His love, in which, while we were still sinners, His Son died for us.
Now that his blood has made us righteous, we are free from condemnation because of Him.
Because we were enemies, we were reconciled with God, by the death of His Son,
we have a greater purpose already reconciled, we will be saved by His life.
Translation: Chris Williams, Eva Van Devender, Jonathan Garcia, Nathanael Ariel
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