Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the notification of the journal and consent of the author. Copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that the editors are notified and no fee is charged for access. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. Many local ministries operate aid programmes independently of their outreach work pray for wisdom for and response to both.Jouvert 6.3: Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, "Fathoming Private Woes in a Public Story - a Study of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost"įathoming Private Woes in a Public Story -Ī Study of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghostīy Geetha Ganapathy-Doré Université de Paris 13, FranceĬopyright © 2002 by Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, all rights reserved. There must be a clear separation of physical assistance and gospel outreach in a society highly sensitized to issues of proselytism, Western money and buying converts.
A significant amount of outreach is directed toward them by the Free Churches Fellowship, AoG and the Smyrna Church.
Pray that the universal love of God and authority of Christ might catalyze both Church and Sri Lankan society toward reconciliation. Ultimately, no other national structure can meaningfully bring together the bitterly divided ethnic communities with their various castes and political expressions except a flourishing biblical Christianity. The potential of the Church as a channel for reconciliation.Relying on foreign denominational structures and finance can also cause divisions.
There are also a significant number of regional pastoral fellowships. Pray for the vital work of the National Christian Evangelical Alliance, the National Christian Council and the National Christian Fellowship of Sri Lanka, the last of which is the network for many of the Sri Lankan indigenous denominations. These divisions offer a poor testimony, give ammunition for opponents of Christianity and hinder progress in evangelization. The Church as a whole is divided - between Tamil and Sinhalese, between Catholic and Protestant, between mainline and evangelical, even between older Pentecostal and newer neo-Pentecostal. This relatively small Christian community produces an impressive number of top-quality, global Christian leaders, thinkers and writers. Numbers continue to surge upward, and Sri Lanka sees the emergence of maturing, faith-filled congregations. The growth of evangelicals is both quantitative and qualitative, but it has a long way to go before maturity and fullness.