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When you indulge in the ecumenical work, you find yourself re-reading the written scenes in a different way. Your fingers sense new places in the heart of the texts that were not in fact latent from your vision before. The Bible reveals the bigger and the more supreme side of faith and grace.

It reveals a Messiah sitting with a Samaritan talking to her about the future of the real salvation, revealing the essence of prostrating in spirit. A Messiah who embraces the publicans and the sinners and recommends to take care of strangers, prevents his disciples from absolute sentencing on who we judge by doom and disbelief, and surprises his followers with different standards of disposal and love.

We also see a novelist who strings his stories and quotes to accept the last ones and hosting a midnight friend, awaiting a rebellious and retarded son, healing the debtors and simpletons, finding Alternative and different solutions for the agent of injustice. It is the momentum, expense and enrichment in the faith of the person of Jesus Christ.

Jesus manifests himself to us as a savior, a true King in his pompous image, crowned and sitting on the throne of the cross, submitting his force from the greatness of his unique love that included a thief who didn’t care about the faith functions and does not morally fulfill the terms of salvation. A soldier with a stone heart and feelings, a crowd yelling to kill him despite all what they have witnessed of grace, delivering himself physically accepting unconditionally opening his arms accepting all humanity. “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,the world, and all who live in it; emphasizing on the message of love and peace.”

In fact, it is a re-capture of the scattered scraps from the full evangelical image and a continuous try to discover the faces of the truth faith between the lines, words, and a life reading of the Bible of Jesus Christ and his superior love. “So filled with all the fullness of God”