Fingerprints of Fire, Footprints of Peace by Moules Noel;

Author:Moules, Noel;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1041967
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing Limited

Adapted from Symon Hill, The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion,

New Internationalist Publications, 2010, p. 31.

42 Mt 23:23; see also Mt 9:13 and 12:7.

43 Mt 22:36–40.

44 Rom 13:8–10.

8

Values Master

– handling dangerous treasure

April 1994 saw three months of genocide sweep like a wave across the central and east African country of Rwanda in which an estimated one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu died at the hands of the majority Hutu population. During the height of the massacre Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in the capital city, Kigali, saved the lives of 1,268 people who fled to his building for safety. He succeeded because of his skilful negotiation, personal ingenuity and astonishing courage, in the face of constant threats from the Interahamwe militia on the outside. He described himself simply as ‘an ordinary man’ who did what he did saying, ‘I don’t ever want to regret.’1

This story illustrates powerfully the words of Jesus: ‘The good person out of the good treasure of their heart brings out good.’2

We have heard Jesus calling us to live by the ethics of the Spirit; to be people who are free and rooted in life-giving values, not rules.

The ‘treasure’ that Jesus speaks about here refers to these ‘values’.3

Maori Marsden, a tribal elder and pastor from New Zealand, comments

There is no specific term in Maori for value. With our holistic view of the universe the Maori idea of value is incorporated into the holistic term taonga – ‘a treasure, something precious’; hence an object of good or value.4

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