The Northeastern Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa proclaims, witnesses and shares the Good News of God's Grace in Jesus Christ.

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Warum wir Lutheraner sind?
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Bishop's Post
October/November 2026

"For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him."
                             1 Thessalonians 4:14
As Christians, we believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died on the cross for us and for our sins. Because he died for us, we may live by the grace of God. But we also believe that Jesus rose from the dead, and that those who believe in him will share in eternal life.
This hope of resurrection has sometimes been criticised as being “world-denying”—as though Christians use the promise of eternal life to escape from the realities of this world. But the opposite is true.
Because we believe that there is more than this life, we take this life even more seriously.
God has placed us here with a purpose. Our lives matter. And one day God will ask us what we have done with the life he has entrusted to us. Jesus speaks clearly about our responsibility towards the poor, the sick and the oppressed. He calls us to love our neighbours and to overcome hatred and division.
To believe in the resurrection is therefore not to have less responsibility for this world, but more.
C.S. Lewis expressed this beautifully: “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.”
Our Christian faith holds these two things together: hope for the life to come and responsibility for the life we live now. We can face death with hope because Christ has died and risen again. And precisely because we have this hope, we are free to serve, to love, to forgive and to work for a better world here and now.
Christ has died. Christ is risen. And because he lives, our lives today have purpose and our future has hope.
Theodor Jäckel

WATCHWORD 2026

 
   I am making               
   everything new!
                  Revelations 21,5

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 QUICK LINKS:

• FELSISA & NELCSA in Dialogue Part 1
  
• Guideline for Church Life
• Apostle's Creed
• Our Father
• Reformation Talk
• Theological Study Commission Covering Letter (pdf)
• Theological Study Commission Discussion Paper October 2015 (pdf)
• Lutheran Community Outreach Foundation - Hillbrow
• Deutsche Schule Hermannsburg
• Altersheim Port Natal
• Altersheim Richmond
• Brass Band Association
• Posaunenverband
• Report presented at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission - reenactment October 2014 (pdf)