We Celebrate Christ: Texts for Easter

By Volker Schunck

With Easter, we celebrate Christ. Even if most people are no longer aware of it. Easter has become meaningless for many, because they don’t longer understand it. The present texts are intended to enable a new approach to the Christian faith and its central event, Easter.
The texts were created over a period of several years. I'm always amazed at how my own belief is transforming as I get older. Some things that were important to me back then are less important to me now, such as certain dogmatic questions, while others, such as life as a Christian in this rapidly changing society, have come to the fore. I see some things differently or more differentiated today, but see for yourself where you can go with me or where you have different opinions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Volker Schunck
• Release date: Feb 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005732233

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We celebrate Christ - Texts for Easter

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Followers

You let Yourself strike twice.

You give away Your last shirt.

You run after the lost.

Your crown is not of gold.

Your throne is the gutter.

Your hands and Your heart are broken.

So how can we live differently as like sheep among wolves?

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We celebrate Christ - Texts for Easter

By Volker Schunck

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Table of Contents

Copyright

Impressum

Table of Contents

About me

Preface

The one human

Der Großinquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor (Translated with Google Translate)

Spießerleben

Bourgois Life (Translated with Google Translate)

Kind armer Leute

Child of poor people ( Translated with Google Translate)

Die Macht der Liebe

The Power of Love (Translated with Google Translate)

So that you can live

King of Hearts

Jesus Christ

Jesu Tod

Jesus‘ Death (Translated with Google Translate)

Jesus‘ Resurrection

A Misunderstanding

Jesus hangs on the cross

Jesus is risen!

Christ, You live.

Don‘t be afraid of science!

Warum musste Jesus sterben? Eine Annäherung

Why had Jesus to die? - An approximation (Translated with Google Translate)

Sohn genannt

Gott sitzt nicht am Spielfeldrand

God is not sitting on the sidelines (Translated with Google Translate)

Haiku

God and the humans - a parable

One for all

The Last Supper

Holy Thursday: Gethsemane (Jesus)

Good Friday: Golgotha (Jesus)

Karsamstag: Im Versteck (Die Jünger)

Ostersonntag: Jesus Christus ist auferstanden! (Jesus)

That's it! (Ascension Day)

Beam me up, Scotty!

Followers

Luft und Liebe

That's it - not still for a long time! (Pentecost)

Von Zeitgeist und Sternstunden

Of zeitgeist and magic moments (Translated with Google Translate)

Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst.

I spy with my little eye (Translated with Google Translate)

About me

I am Volker Schunck and live in Dresden, Germany. First I was an industrial clerk, then I studied theology.

Through my engagement with Zen I became aware of the Christian mysticism. Meanwhile I go my own way. Belief is not a thinking but a being. It is important to me, not to live lost in thought but aware and intensely. For me, this also includes careful handling of other people.

The NVC (Nonviolent Communication), which I learned during my training as a mediator, helps me with this.

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Preface

With Easter we celebrate Christ. Even if most people are no longer aware of it. Easter has become meaningless for many, because they don‘t longer understand it. The present texts are intended to enable a new approach to the Christian faith and its central event, Easter.

The texts were created over a period of several years. I'm always amazed at how my own belief is transforming as I get older. Some things that were important to me back then are less important to me now, such as certain dogmatic questions, while others, such as life as a Christian in this rapidly changing society, have come to the fore. I see some things differently or more differentiated today, but see for yourself where you can go with me or where you have different opinions.

With this in mind: Happy Easter!

Yours, Volker

PS: The German edition (Wir feiern Christus - Texte für Ostern) of this book is for sale. This edition is free, but has one catch: A few texts - due to a lack of time - were translated with Google Translate. Where this is the case I also present you the original German text , in case you are bilingual.

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The one human

The one human is being born. He breezes in, he breezes out, he is awake, he sleeps, he eats, drinks, he digests and he excretes. He laughs and cries, he is patient and angry.

Then the consciousness awakes in him: I am one with God. That's something new. That is scandalous and inappropriate. At least there and then, when and where he lives. For Jewish ears and hearts at his time, at any time, this is insolent and blasphemous. And at least unintelligible for non-Jewish. God and humans - as different as heaven and earth.

Or finally it's fulfilled what had been a long time known, what then was forgotten, what was believed and what was not understood:

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him. (Gen 1:27: NIV)

The name of the one human is not Adam but Jesus. Being one with God. That is the true Nature of human. We have forgotten this. We have forgotten God, and we have forgotten ourselves. The one human: Jesus Christ. Heaven stands open. And Jesus of whom John the Baptist says: But one more powerful than I will come and he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire (Lk 3:16), this Jesus himself becomes fulfilled with the Holy Spirit. (look John 1:32-34) That testifies John the Baptist.

Is that a proof? That is no proof. Do you need proofs?

The modern Sisyphos carries heavily at the stone, who once was thrown into the sea of world-history. At the peak of knowledge it runs like sand through the fingers of the mind, rolls itself away of every having. And then? A new try.

From distance Sisyphos looks like a man who is carrying a cross.

How long? A lifetime.

God willing his mind breaks in pieces and his heart starts to understand:

The being human of Christ is my true nature. I am called to be one with God.

Only this way my life finds its fulfillment.

In other words: He must increase, but I must decrease.((John 3:30) KJV) Or: I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. ((Gal 2:20) NIV)

At the peak of knowledge YOU run like sand through the fingers of my mind, you roll yourself away of every having.

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Der Großinquisitor

In dem Roman Die Brüder Karamasoff zeichnet Dostojewski im Kapitel Der Großinquisitor ein düsteres, apokalyptisches Endzeit-Szenario. Christus kommt zurück in diese Welt – inkognito. Rechts und links seines Weges brennen die Scheiterhaufen, denn es ist die Zeit der Großinquisition. Aber sein Kommen bleibt nicht inkognito. Schnell wird er vom gemeinen Volk erkannt, Menschen berühren sein Gewand und werden heil. Doch für die Institution Kirche, verkörpert in der Gestalt des Großinquisitors, ist Christus nur ein Störenfried, der die Routine der Macht empfindlich stört. Er wird eingesperrt und von dem knochigen, alten und rechtgläubigen Großinquisitor in seiner Zelle verhört. Das Gespräch entwickelt sich um Freiheit, Macht, Moral und Brot. Der Großinquisitor spricht, der inhaftierte Christus, der den morgigen Tag nicht mehr erleben soll,