Pemberdayaan Jemaat dalam Menghadapi Dampak Modernisasi dan Globalisasi

Abstract

In its rich diversity, the Church has a unique role as a truly global community. Christians need to network and work together to meet the challenges of globalization. The Church needs a unified global voice to respond to the damage that globalization is causing to both people and the environment. There is no room for indifference to the way the world is run. Christians must engage in the current debate on globalization to recognize its opportunities and challenges. Globalization offers tremendous opportunities, namely the ease of communication, transportation, and travel, which can be used to do much good in empowering the poor and underprivileged. While Christians are at war with modernity on moral issues, we often consider neutral other issues stemming from modernity, such as individualism, materialism, and consumerism. Although globalization has created more open societies and brought economic benefits to many, it has often meant the massive exclusion of the poor. As Christians, we are called to integral discipleship, which involves the responsible and sustainable use of God's created resources. We are called to change our lives in moral, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political dimensions. The most critical task of the church in our generation is to offer an attractive alternative to the unjust imbalances in the world's economic order and the cultural values ​​of its consumers.