FALSE IMAGE OF RELIGION
Bishop’s Message To Territorials (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND Jan. 21. People built a false image of religion as something separated from the world by an iron curtain, the Bishop of Auckland, the Rt. Rev. E. A Gowing, said at Papakura Military Camp on Sunday. Bishop Gowing was preaching to 600 territorials in annual camp at Papakura He took as his theme the “right understanding of religion.”
"The false images we often build up of people and organisations and nations applies also to religion," said Bishop Gowing. "Religion is not something behind an iron curtain from which we emerge to do the work of the world. It is partly the fault of those in the Church that this has not been fully recognised. “God is the author <rf every part of our being, not just of the soul, and so He is concerned with the whole man in the whole ot his life, what ho does with his body and with his mind. “The task of the Christian is to carty the spirit of Christ into the whole ot life, into an relationshipa. What a difference it would make to our world if this was happening on a wide scale. “Hie world needs people with a living, dynamic faith and It appears to me that in our democracies there is too little evhtonee ot this," mid Bishop Gowing.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30036, 22 January 1963, Page 10
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231FALSE IMAGE OF RELIGION Press, Volume CII, Issue 30036, 22 January 1963, Page 10
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