Bücher von Ruth Rotich

Christian formation is best described as an interactive process by which God the Father conforms believers into the image of Jesus through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit by overseeing the development of the whole person in various life dimensions for the sake of others. As Redeemer, Jesus the Son provides the impetus and model as the perfect image of God into which followers are to be confirmed. The Holy Spirit provides the divine love and power that causes the process to take place and advance. The apostle Paul refers to this ongoing transformation process: ¿And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit¿ (2 Cor 3:18).

The origin of African Christianity has links to the Church of Ethiopia. Ethiopia had contacts with the Jews way before Jesus Christ was born. One of the contacts is found in the encounter between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (1Kings 10). Another is when Jesus was born also, he sought asylum with his parents in Egypt to escape the plot of King Herod to kill him as a baby (Matthew 2: 13-14). The Coptic Church in Egypt values this event and argues that the Good News came first to them through the preaching of the apostle Mark who is believed to have been martyred in Alexandria. Some historians hold that Mark was in Cyrene where he converted many Jews and Greeks before he went to Alexandria in Egypt-though there are no sufficient evidences to prove this.