... All ascetics ( those who fight, fight, strive ) abstain from everything: those to receive a perishable crown, and we - an incorruptible one. And that’s why I don’t run in the wrong way, I don’t fight in a way that just beats the air; but I subdue and enslave my body, so that, while preaching to others, I myself may not remain unworthy . (1 Cor.9:25-27)
Athletes have a goal. For example, achieving a medal at the Olympics. Every athlete understands that this will require sacrifice. Don’t go to another holiday, don’t lie on the couch, don’t chat with friends…
Difficulties along the way
Maybe something will not work out for some time, the wrong results will be shown, some competitions will be lost... But this will not stop someone who has a goal and strives for it. But for those who simply have this goal, but leave when difficulties arise, anything will stop them. This reminds us of a scripture.
... to everyone who hears the word about the Kingdom and does not understand, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart - this is who is meant by what was sown along the way. And what is sown on rocky places means one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; but it has no root in itself and is fickle: WHEN TROUBLE COMES OR PERSECUTION FOR THE WORD, it is immediately offended. And what was sown among thorns means the one who hears the word, but the CONCERNS OF THIS AGE AND THE DECEPTATION OF WEALTH MUFFLES THE WORD, and it becomes unfruitful. (Matt. 13:19-22)
Difficulties with the Word. In order to fulfill It, you must endure (...you need patience so that, having fulfilled the will of God, you will receive what was promised...). It is necessary to believe (confidence in the unseen), to be faithful to death.
And we understand that the main goal of a Christian is not healing, not a million dollars, not food and clothing, not delivering our loved ones from drunkenness. Paul writes above ABOUT THE IMPROPERABLE CROWN. Further, he describes the same goal in a different way
… Brethren, I do not consider myself to have attained; but only, forgetting what is behind and reaching forward, I STRIVE TOWARDS THE GOAL, the HONOR OF THE HIGH CALL (the reward of the highest calling) OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS. So, whoever is perfect among us MUST THINK THIS way; if you think differently about something, then God will reveal this to you . (Phil.3:13-15)
Fruit: What is it?
Simply put, fruit is a changed life, a life with Christ at the center, a life in which we die to ourselves so that Christ may live in us (Galatians 2:19-20). A life that seeks to satisfy God, not self or other people. A life whose main theme, focus and priority is God. Let's see what Scripture says about this:
Galatians 5:22-25 “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. There is no law against them. But those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. If we live by the spirit, then we must act by the spirit.”
The spirit here refers to the new man, Christ, living in us. By living according to the new man, we bear the fruit discussed above. And in Ephesians 2:10 we read:
Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to walk in.”
The Lord has predestined for us good works that we must do; He gifted each of us uniquely. All we have to do is fulfill what the Lord has already intended for us. To do this means to please the Lord and bear fruit. Likewise, 1 Peter tells us:
1 Peter 4:7-11 “However, the end of all things is near. Therefore, be wise and watchful in prayer. Most of all, have fervent love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be kind to one another without murmuring. Serve one another, each with the gift that you have received, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, [speak] as the words of God; If anyone serves, [serve] according to the strength that God gives, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen".
This passage tells us to do a variety of things. Stay awake in prayer. Have passionate love for each other. Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. Also see, this passage says that each of us has received a gift from the Lord. Just as each organ of the body is unique and takes its proper place, performing a specific function, so are we: the Lord gave each of us a place in the body of Christ, in the church, and gave us unique talents and gifts so that we could act in it (1st Epistle Corinthians 12:12-27). And Peter in this message wants to tell us one thing: ACT! The Lord gave talents and gifts not to just any specific people: not just to your spiritual mentor or priest. This passage does not refer to a specific group of people in the Christian community. No, it applies to all Christians, including you! See, it also says, “serve one another.” God's gift was given to you not so that you could remain idle, but so that you could serve one another. I serve you, you serve me, and we all serve God. Serving God and others is not just a job for certain types of people, such as pastors and priests. Many people think this way, but these thoughts are not drawn from the Bible. The idea that Scripture supports is that each of us is uniquely gifted and each has a unique place in the body of Christ. There are no such concepts as clergy and laity in Scripture. As Scripture tells us, we are all priests before God. Look how wonderfully Peter talks about this:
1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
And further:
1 Peter 2:5 “And you yourselves, like living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
We are expected to each act in our given gift to serve one another. 1 Peter 4:17 tells us to use the gifts and talents that the Lord has given us to serve one another. The question before you is whether you have a gift. You have it! It is a fact! You need to do with it what Peter says: serve other members of the body of Christ according to the gift God has given you.”
However, although the above is fruit, it is wrong to think that in order to bear fruit we must do what God has commanded us to do. Using our gift also involves a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. As Philippians 1:9-11 says:
Philippians 1:9-11 “And I pray that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and in every feeling, so that, knowing better, you may be pure and without stumbling in the day of Christ, filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory of and the praise of God."
The fruit of righteousness is fulfilled by “Jesus Christ” and not by our strength. Moreover, their result is the glory and praise of God. As Jesus Christ explains in John 15, he himself is the vine and we are the branches:
Gospel of John 15:4-5, 8 “Abide in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it is in the vine, so neither can you unless you are in Me. I am the vine, and you are the branches; He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing….. By this My Father will be glorified, if you bear much fruit and become My disciples.”
Fruiting involves staying true to the Vine. We are not a vine. This is Christ! We are the branches. The branches cannot bear fruit unless they remain in the vine. So are we. Union with Christ can enable us branches to bear fruit. In this case, the branches are nothing more than just an opportunity for the vine to bear fruit. Since we abide in Christ, He will be manifested through us; The vine will live in us and bear fruit. Serving and doing the good works that God has ordained for us therefore presupposes a passionate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we want to please. The meaning is not so much in the works themselves, but in Jesus Christ. It is through our union with Christ, when we live in Jesus Christ, “by Jesus Christ,” as Philippians says, that fruit comes into being.
Delving deeper into this topic, let us remember how Christ spoke about false prophets: He said that we can recognize them by their fruits.
Matthew 7:15-20 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So by their fruits you will know them.”
The Word speaks of false prophets (Matthew 7:15), false Christs (Matthew 24:24), false apostles (2 Corinthians 11:13), false brethren (Galatians 2:4, 2 Corinthians 11:12), false teachers (2 Peter 2:1), deceitful workers (2 Corinthians 11:13). There is one thing by which we can recognize such people - their fruit! Good fruit can only come from “Jesus Christ.” Any other tree, even if it speaks of God or even of Christ, can only bear false fruit.
I would like to encourage you, my dear brothers and sisters, to follow the Lord with all your heart; follow Him with zeal, grow in your relationship with our living Lord, and pursue what He has intended for you. This is called the fruit of the spirit because the tree is the Spirit, Christ in us. Abide in Christ, for the one who abides in Him, and in whom Christ abides, can bear only one thing: abundant fruit!
How to enter the Kingdom
That is, Paul is talking about a HIGHER CALLING, in heaven. And he says that it is not easy to get salvation. This means achieving the REWARD. Unfortunately, for many people the essence of salvation lies in “however to enter the Kingdom,” even at the door. For many people, the concept of “doing something for God, for the Kingdom” sounds like a sentence: “Oh, again about business, I have so much to do around the house, I have so much work to do, things to do, business, fields, car...”. When you start talking about forgiving someone, you can hear something terrible.
Yesterday we recalled examples. People from ONE denomination could not find a common language in ONE city so that they could glorify God together in peace and quiet. And we asked ourselves the question - how will we be together in heaven? I am not talking now about different denominations or schools of thought. In general, people there are ready to hate others and not communicate because of pork, gifts, the Sabbath, songs... Can this be called the goal of a Christian?
Another example is a Christian woman who could not reconcile with another sister and, when she was told that their homes in heaven could be nearby, she objected - “just not nearby”! Do you understand???? This is not a conversation about awards, crowns... this is such a low level from which Christianity generally begins. People are happy that they said the prayer of repentance, passed the membership exam and are now saved. Everything else - to work, to forgive, to love your neighbors without looking for your own, to edify your brothers and sisters EVERY DAY, to know the will of God... is no longer relevant.
What is the purpose of the Christian life?
Addressing people in parables, Christ repeatedly emphasizes the idea that our earthly life has an important, unique meaning.
Such, for example, is the parable of the ten virgins waiting for the groom with lighted lamps (see Matt. 25:1-13). The groom delayed until midnight. But the wise virgins had oil in reserve for their lamps, and they met him with dignity and went with him to the wedding feast. The foolish virgins did not foresee that the groom would come late, and they did not store any oil. When they announced that the bridegroom was approaching, their lamps had already begun to go out. They went to the merchants to buy oil, and when they returned, they did not have time to meet the groom and then knocked in vain on closed doors.
While a person lives in this world, he can set the direction of his path in eternity. Beyond the threshold of death, he loses the ability to change - his spiritual development will continue in the direction of good or evil chosen during life. Therefore, the vector of our development in earthly life should be directed towards Christ - this is the most important thing. But how can this be done in practice? How, living in this difficult world, can one achieve the goal of Christian life?
This question haunted one Orthodox young man. He asked it to many people: those who were wise in life experience, those who had received theological education, and those who were ordained to the priesthood. In response, he heard the immutable truths that one must believe in God, pray, keep fasts, go to church, live according to God’s commandments, and do good deeds. Nevertheless, the young man did not stop and continued to ask. And only many years later the Lord gave him a comprehensive answer through His great ascetic - St. Seraphim of Sarov. The saint himself reminded him of this question and revealed the purpose of Christian life. The person who was lucky enough not only to meet the true lamp of faith on his path, but also to become his student, was Nikolai Motovilov, who recorded this conversation. The answer sounded very simple: “The true goal of Christian life is to acquire the Holy Spirit.”
Motovilov did not immediately understand the meaning of these words, and the Monk Seraphim explained that in the parable of the ten virgins, Christ calls our earthly existence a “marketplace,” and the business of human life is a “purchase” and says to everyone: “Buy until I come.” Throughout his life, a Christian should be engaged in “purchasing” (“acquiring”) the grace of the Holy Spirit—the oil mentioned in the parable—to maintain the lamp of his soul. To those who believe that this oil is good deeds, St. Seraphim objects that it is not for nothing that the parable is talking about virgins. Preservation of virginity is an equally angelic virtue, superior to all others. Both the wise and the foolish virgins were equally virtuous. But, in the figurative language of St. Seraphim, the foolish virgins did not receive “not a penny of profit” from their good deeds.
Any trader works to make a profit. The Monk Seraphim calls spiritual profit the gradual assimilation to Christ through the grace of the Holy Spirit. Acting like a merchant, a Christian must do good deeds in an effort to receive God's grace through them, which transfers him from a corruptible state to an incorruptible, deified state. Good deeds in themselves, if they do not increase the grace of Christ in a person, have no value. Healed by the grace of the Holy Spirit, human nature acquires the ability to exist eternally together with the Lord in His Kingdom.
Closed doors are death, blocking the path of spiritually untransformed people to the Heavenly Palace, where the Bridegroom, Christ, resides. He says to the foolish virgins: “I do not know you” (Matthew 25:12), because they do not know Him. This is an answer to Christians who in their earthly life were careless about spiritual gifts and did not strive to become like Christ. The Monk Simeon the New Theologian explains that in the future life a Christian will not be asked what good deeds he has done in earthly life and how many, but he will be carefully tested, with what state of spirit he performed them and “does he have any resemblance to Christ, like a son to his father."
The foolish virgins did not have any virtues in reserve, but rather the grace of God acquired through them. According to the explanation of the Monk Seraphim, they considered only the external, formal fulfillment of Christian duties sufficient, without caring about “whether they received the grace of the Spirit of God,” and lived their whole lives without knowing Christ.
Likewise, Abbess Arsenia (Sebryakova) lamented that, while fulfilling all the requirements of the monastery charter, many sisters of her monastery do not work on their inner state, “they do not look for, do not try to exterminate passions at their roots.” When asked by the abbess, “why are they not doing anything to save themselves,” these sisters were offended. After all, they were busy from morning to night with obediences and regularly read the monastic rule. But the abbess wanted their work to pursue the main goal - to have a constant aspiration towards Christ.
What to strive for?
We often use thoughts about how a person can NOT GET into the Kingdom and what bad things must be done to achieve this. But the Holy Spirit speaks ABOUT ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.
... forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I STRIVE TOWARDS THE GOAL, THE HONOR OF THE HIGH CALL (the reward of the highest calling) OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS. So, whoever is perfect among us MUST THINK THIS way; if you think differently about something, then God will reveal this to you . (Phil.3:13-15)
THIS IS HOW YOU SHOULD THINK!!! This is the goal of a Christian.
Our goal
So where are we aiming and what goal have we set for ourselves? And what are we ready to do for this purpose? Is this purpose different from WHAT we are called to do and what God wants us to do?
How did we get this Christian purpose? Did you hear from a friend? Teachers? Or did they know the will of God by denying themselves and presenting their body as a living sacrifice???
Personally, I heard a lot of people who said that God revealed to them their ministry, their life purpose. But, looking at the overall picture of their lives, it was impossible to understand - so WHO IS THEIR MASTER? And WHO controls and commands??
The wife is not obedient to her husband. And she finds a lot of reasons WHY she doesn’t do this. The husband does not treat his wife as a co-heir, does not cherish her like Christ the Church, demanding that she fulfill her duties. Brothers and sisters say that they have a calling from God to be a prophet, shepherd, teacher, evangelist, apostle, but, in essence, they are engaged in earthly vanity. It was not for nothing that Jesus said that “... you cannot SERVE God and mammon”
... No one can serve two masters: for either he will HATE ONE AND LOVE THE OTHER; or one will become EXTREMELY EMPOWERED, AND NEGLECT ABOUT THE OTHER. You cannot serve God and mammon . (Matt. 6:24)
Fruit: pruning
I’m not particularly knowledgeable in gardening, but I remember from school: in order for a plant to bear fruit, it needs to cut off unnecessary branches from time to time. However, this does not reveal the full meaning of this process. During my searches on the Internet, I found this definition on Wikipedia:
“Pruning in gardening is a technology for removing diseased, unproductive parts of a plant. The purpose of pruning is to shape the plant by controlling or directing growth, maintaining plant health, or increasing the quantity or quality of flowers and fruit. Proper pruning requires as much skill as art, because poorly pruned plants can become diseased or not grow properly.”
Every plant needs pruning. Every plant needs a gardener who will prune it and direct its growth in the right direction; in someone who will take care of its health, remove diseased branches and clean it so that it bears more fruit. The same is needed for us, since we are branches of the Vine, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. We need pruning too, and guess what, we have a gardener who takes care of it too! And again we read in John 15:
John 15:1-2 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch of Me that does not bear fruit He cuts off; and every one that bears fruit he cleanses, that it may bear more fruit.”
It is the Father who takes care of the pruning. Let's remember: pruning is a necessity! We can't grow without her! And fortunately, we have someone who takes care of this: our Father. Like a kind and attentive gardener, he watches over us, intervenes, guiding our growth, removing obstacles and purifying us so that we can bear more fruit! Isn't this wonderful?! To bear fruit we must live in Christ; To bear much fruit requires the work of the Lord, which is our pruning. Our job is to abide in Christ, and God's job is to provide the pruning needed to increase our fruitfulness.
I believe Hebrews 12:11 tells us the same thing, but in different words. There we read:
Hebrews 12:11 “No chastisement for the present time seems to be joyful, but sorrowful; but afterwards he brings to those who are taught the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
Here the author talks about punishment and how no punishment currently seems like joy. On the contrary, it is painful! I think it's the same with pruning. When a gardener deals with it, he is forced to cut pieces from the plant. He is forced to cut off the diseased parts, those that take away the life juices of the plant and are not useful for it. Trimming means something has to be cut off! Something that was normal is no longer normal. The gardener intervened and cut it off. Punishment is something similar. We discipline our children and prune our plants. Both are done with the same goal: to make children better, to make plants more fruitful. And when the Lord disciplines His children, it may be painful at first, but those who learn the lesson can only bear FRUIT, the peaceful fruit of righteousness, as Hebrews tells us. In the end, the Lord must do this, because this is what every father who loves his children must do. And He loves us very much. So the lesson is this: just as plants have a gardener who prunes them so that they will bear more fruit, so we have our beloved Father in Heaven who is responsible for pruning so that as we abide in Christ we will bear more fruit.
Make a choice
There is such a definition in logic - FORK. This is where it is presented. There are no other alternatives here. Jesus called for our words to be either “yes” or “no.” EVERYTHING that is above is from the evil one. Therefore, you need to make a decision and be honest with yourself.
WHO DO I LOVE and WHO DO I HATE????? I repeat - there is no other!!!!
What I care about and what I don’t care about. That's what it's called. And there are no other definitions.
In the poems of Pavel Shavlovsky there are the following words:
...a question briefly flies through my heart, making me shiver: “Who are you, where are you coming from?” Who are you?
The dull pain of recognizing “who I am,” the soul most painfully admits to the root of all suffering with the short phrase “I am a Jew.” And if this is not known, then I will answer:
- My people Israel are the chosen ones, I am the one who walked honestly before the eternal God all my life, year after year,
What good is it, now, hiding, running from everyone and myself, just because I don’t agree with God...
and in the Word of God there are such lines
… Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves. Or do you not know yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless you are what you should be . (2 Cor. 13:5)
The Meaning of Christianity
Reflections of a teacher of the highest category, geography, biology, local history and the foundations of Christian Orthodox culture of the Noshenskaya secondary school
Abansky district, Krasnoyarsk Territory,
Krivonosov Viktor Mikhailovich,
about the meaning of Christianity
He thoroughly learned the Christian sound, spiritual and moral way of life, without which the revival of Russia is impossible. Whenever possible, in my lessons I reveal this way of life to students using specific examples, as well as my way of life. The time has come when schools began to teach “Christian culture” lessons, which will help increase the emotional intelligence quotient of students, and I believe that the brochure I wrote on this topic, “Gracious Advice to a Christian from the Holy Spirit in Modern Life,” will be a good additional guide. " The source of information for writing the brochure was the advice of Christian elders and personal judgments based on personal experience according to the will of God. Recently, Russian society has begun to realize the great importance of Christian morality and culture in the formation of a Christian lifestyle for Russians.
But Christian philosophy and culture revived Rus' to great Russia. And we must boldly revive Russia and not look back at the atheistic worldview hammered into Russians during Soviet times, although in Soviet times some of the foundations of sound morality were taken from Christianity. “External police” - the police will not ensure order; you cannot assign a police officer to every person - an overseer. Every person needs “internal police,” self-control of their behavior, feelings, desires, and this is accomplished by conscience, formed by Christian culture and philosophy. After all, a Christian from childhood learns to analyze his deeds, thoughts, feelings, desires every day at evening prayer - confession. “Internal police” is a person’s conscience, only it is capable of ensuring a healthy, moral order
in society, or rather
the discipline
of citizens, which is implemented through the fulfillment by citizens of their
rights and responsibilities
.
A Christian is a disciplined person who knows his rights and responsibilities and puts them into practice in his life. A Christian is a free person, he lives with the will of God, yes
, this is the encrypted meaning of the word
freedom - s-in-bo-yes
.
What is the main goal of Christianity?
To answer this question, let’s turn to the primary sources: what the angels, God the Father Sabbaoth, and God the Son Jesus Christ told people.
When Jesus Christ was born, the shepherds heard the song of angels in the sky, in which they addressed all humanity of the Earth, so that it would not disappear from the face of the Earth: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
"
To comprehend this sentence, you need to read it from right to left and the following is obtained: if there is goodwill
, then there will be Peace on Earth and for this great glory to God.
Just as a white ray of light breaks up into seven colors, so the word benevolence
has the following meaning when it is implemented in life: it is
meek kindness
,
good feeling, good will, kindness, chaste good deeds, humble patience, maternal forgiveness
,
gentle admonition, feasible punishment for correction.
And seven is the magic number. There are seven notes in music, family from the word seven.
When John the prophet baptized Jesus Christ in the Jordan River, the voice of God the Father was heard from the cloud: “This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
" And he called on his son to remain in good will, and he fulfilled this. He taught how people should live correctly. His teaching is set forth in the Gospel. The meaning of this word is twofold: the first is “the appearance of an angel is possible from the Sun, because it consists of helium” that brought good news to people, the second is “Eve (n) - unknown from (helium) from the Sun.” God laid great meaning not only in words, but also in part of a word and a separate letter included in a word.
When the apostles asked Jesus what was the most important thing in his teaching, which he expounded to them, he answered them: “ Love,
each other as I have loved you,” “Love God.”
The meaning of the word love
is the same as the meaning of the word,
favor and mercy,
see above.
In the world there is goodness, kindness, politeness and sin, evil, rudeness. Good and evil exist in parallel. The set of their manifestations in people’s lives is multi-valued, see the text “The ABC of Politeness” and “The ABC of Rudeness.” Every person must be familiar with the meaning of the words contained in these texts, especially the younger generation.
2009 years ago, humanity was immersed in a world of evil, rude relationships, and by the grace of God the Father, his Son, Jesus Christ, was sent to Earthlings to guide humanity into the good, good direction of life and existence. But it is not enough to know and distinguish between good and evil. It is necessary to have the desire to live according to good will, creating virtue.
We need to understand the meaning of the word “SPIRITUALITY”
, these are invisible forces that penetrate a person and force him to do bad or good.
But since the WORLD lies in evil, people often commit various intrigues to each other, without noticing it, since the spirit has completely taken possession of them. To cleanse the soul and mind of a person from this infection, the Christian Church was created, in which, through repentance in confession, the permissive prayer of the priest, a Christian is freed from the influence of the evil spirit. Then he takes communion so that a good spirit
and help the person to correct himself and live kindly, sensibly—according to the will of God. As Jesus said, “My yoke is easy, my burden is light.” Yoke in translation is a rule, a law.
In addition, the sacrament protects a Christian from the machinations of witchcraft and various spiritual evil spirits. Promotes a person’s insight, expanding the range of his spiritual concepts, and the person acquires spiritual wisdom.
And the last important purpose of Christianity?! To meet and help the Son of Man, to perform a Godly deed on Earth, this has probably been forgotten..?!.
I hope that the opinions expressed in this article have convinced you that it is necessary in school
teach “Fundamentals of Orthodox Christian culture.”
What will help improve the sound spiritual morality of children.
The meaning of the word culture is as follows, cult is a way of life, u is admiration, Ra is the Sun God. It turns out that we admire the way of life of the Sun God and imitate him.
In Soviet times, the younger generation was actively raised in sound morality (of course, it was borrowed from Christianity, because all Russians were raised as Orthodox Christians from childhood), creating for this purpose various children's organizations: October, Pioneer, Komsomol. Become familiar with the rules and laws of these organizations. Currently there is nothing like this in schools. Therefore, the younger generation is entangled in the networks of evil and passions. Often identifying the meaning of the word freedom with the word permissiveness, and the word permissiveness is evil, based on the meaning of this word, one can do both good and evil. In education, economics, and politics of different states, in different eras of time, both positive and negative aspects can be identified. The task of the authorities is to take everything positive and intelligently implement everything. Then the society will truly prosper materially and spiritually.
The Russian education system needs to cooperate with Orthodoxy in matters of sound moral education.
This is precisely why Orthodoxy exists, and active philanthropy is needed, for a faster moral revival of Russia.
The new Patriarch Kirill highly values the importance of philanthropic activities, and perhaps the time will come for cooperation between the state and the Orthodox Church
in the field of
sound moral education of Russians.
I think it is very useful for beginners to read all the articles written by me by God’s grace, recorded on this disc.
Morality comes from the word like, so some like to do good, others like to do evil. Based on this, I use a qualifying word, sound
moral education.
Based on what you read, try to make the following diagram, in the center of the diagram place the following words, favor, love and mercy
in a circle are the rays of the nine that make up their meaning, and from these nine the rays of the remaining polite words written in the “ABC of Politeness” diverge.
In the outer circle there will be primary sources that reveal the meaning of benevolence: the Bible - the Old and New Testaments, the Councils of the Elders, the Lives of the Holy Martyrs, the meaning of the main Christian holidays, the feasts of the icons of the Mother of God. Get acquainted with the Divine service in the Orthodox Christian Church, gain knowledge about the essence of Orthodoxy from the media, communicate with spiritually experienced Christians, a prayer book and, of course, the “ABC of Politeness” and “The ABC of Rudeness ” compiled in our school.
The content of the latter
is useful to use in school during lessons
: class hours, Russian language and literature, history, social studies; they can be used to determine
the level of education of students
; this is done either by the students themselves under the guidance of the teacher, or by the teacher himself. This will also increase students' understanding of ethical words and their meaning, and of course their behavior will improve.
If you decide to get rid of the spiritual evil sitting inside you and protect yourself from external evil, then learn Christianity to the fullest! Read prayers and various spiritual literature, confess and receive communion in the Orthodox Church.
This article is intended for lost and doubting people. I would like to hope that the meaning of this article was useful to those who read it and they will begin to improve for the better by analyzing their life activities every evening.
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Conclusion
If you cannot answer the questions: “Who am I”; "Where am I going"; “What is my calling,” then regardless of your age today, we can assume that you do not perceive yourself as a single whole. Why? The reasons may vary. The main one is that for the most part we live a little conscious life, we are simply carried along with the flow until we encounter obstacles in the form of whirlpools and traffic jams (crises in the personal and professional sphere), overcoming which we or move to a new level awareness or drowning. The sooner we set goals for ourselves, taking into account our characteristics, the higher the likelihood of success at work and in the personal sphere.
