The theme of the last three months was „The pattern of this world“. In Romans 12,2 the apostle Paul admonishes us not to conform to the patterns of this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. So I tried to dismantle some of the patterns of which we are often not aware, because we grew up with them and live and breathe in them - and I tried to point out what Christ’s perspective and alternative could be…

„You can do anything - just believe in yourself!“ Does that sound familiar? It’s one of those standard secular lies. It sounds astonishingly similar to Jesus’ statement „If you have faith, you can tell a mountain to move“ (Mt 17,20), or like Paul’s saying „I can do all things through Christ“ (Phil 4,13)…