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This verse serves as the guiding message for the year 2024. It appears in the closing lines of Paul\u2019s letter to the Corinthians, offering his final recommendation to the community\u2014a concise summary of the entire letter.<\/p>\n
\nIs the call to \u201cdo all in love\u201d self-evident for every Christian? A clich\u00e9? Or is it something deeper?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And yet, this ideal is impossible to fully achieve. Paul\u2019s relationship with the church in Corinth exemplifies this tension. In his letter, he sometimes addresses the community with sharp and stern words. Just a few chapters earlier (Chapter 13), Paul offers a profound description of love\u2014a passage often recited at weddings, during moments when life feels idyllic. Why such a strong emphasis on love, if not to highlight how frequently our actions fall short of embodying its true essence?<\/p>\n
The love that Christ gives, asks for, and commands is neither sentimental nor romantic. It is, above all, a gift of trust and a call to transformation. Love requires sacrifice \u2014both for the giver and for the individual or community that receives it. It is rarely the %22gift%22 we expect. Love disrupts. It calls for change. It challenges us to adopt new perspectives, actions, and reactions.<\/p>\n
This profound understanding of love aligns deeply with FAP\u2019s mission: to support the work of loving one another, to strengthen the capacity for action within Reformed churches around the world, and to advocate for transformation in the world through those who bear witness to this love. Such transformation often starts not with our enemies but with those closest to us: with ourselves, in our own personal growth and development; with our communities, as they strengthen their mission; with our neighbours\u2014those who are impoverished and isolated\u2014; and with the forgotten child, the excluded, the sick and the natural world. In the public sphere, love manifests as justice.<\/p>\n
This is the commitment FAP renews this year, standing in solidarity with local communities to embody and enact this love.<\/p>\n
Rev. Serge Fornerod
President<\/p>\n“]<\/p>\n
(1 Corinthiens, 16:14)<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n
Tel est le verset de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 2024. Il se trouve dans les derni\u00e8res lignes, comme la derni\u00e8re recommandation de Paul \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 de Corinthe. Comme une sorte de r\u00e9sum\u00e9 de toute sa lettre.<\/p>\n
\n\u00ab\u00a0Agir avec amour\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: une \u00e9vidence\u00a0pour tout chr\u00e9tien ? Une banalit\u00e9\u00a0? Vraiment\u00a0?<\/b><\/b><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Et pourtant impossible \u00e0 r\u00e9aliser enti\u00e8rement. Paul lui-m\u00eame et sa relation avec la paroisse de Corinthe en sont l\u2019illustration, puisque dans cette lettre, il parle parfois tr\u00e8s durement \u00e0 sa paroisse. Quelques pages avant ce passage, Paul a tent\u00e9 une description de tout ce que recouvre l\u2019amour (Chap. 13), un texte que l\u2019on aime lire lors des mariages, lorsque tout va bien. Pourquoi cette insistance, sinon parce que la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de notre action n\u2019est pas souvent en conformit\u00e9 ?<\/p>\n
L\u2019amour donn\u00e9, demand\u00e9 et revendiqu\u00e9 par le Christ n\u2019est pas sentimental, ni romantique. Il est d\u2019abord (aban)don de confiance et de transformation. L\u2019amour n\u2019est pas gratuit, il est exigent, aussi pour la personne ou la communaut\u00e9 qui le re\u00e7oit.\u00a0 Ce n\u2019est pas toujours \u00ab un cadeau \u00bb, comme on dit. L\u2019amour perturbe et convoque un changement chez l\u2019autre. Un autre regard, une autre action ou r\u00e9action.<\/p>\n
C\u2019est peu dire que cela r\u00e9sonne bien avec la mission de la FAP\u00a0: soutenir les efforts d\u2019amour des uns et des autres. Renforcer la capacit\u00e9 d\u2019action des \u00c9glises r\u00e9form\u00e9es du monde entier. Requ\u00e9rir le changement, la transformation des comportements dans le monde par l\u2019action des t\u00e9moins de cet amour. Cela ne commence pas n\u00e9cessairement par ses ennemis, mais par son plus proche prochain\u00a0: soi-m\u00eame pour se former et d\u00e9velopper, sa communaut\u00e9 pour renforcer son action, sa voisine pauvre et isol\u00e9e, l\u2019enfant oubli\u00e9, l\u2019exclu, le malade, l\u2019environnement. L\u2019amour, dans le domaine public, cela s\u2019appelle la justice. C\u2019est \u00e0 cela que s\u2019engage la FAP, cette ann\u00e9e encore, en appui aux communaut\u00e9s locales.<\/p>\n
Serge Fornerod, pasteur
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(1 Corinthiens, 16:14) Tel est le verset de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 2024. Il se trouve dans les derni\u00e8res lignes, comme la derni\u00e8re recommandation de Paul \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 de Corinthe. Comme une sorte de r\u00e9sum\u00e9 de toute sa lettre. \u00ab\u00a0Agir avec amour\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0: une \u00e9vidence\u00a0pour tout chr\u00e9tien ? Une banalit\u00e9\u00a0? Vraiment\u00a0? Et pourtant impossible \u00e0 r\u00e9aliser enti\u00e8rement. Paul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationfap.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}