The Archbishop of York sent out a message to work with humility and work for the grassroots, he was speaking at a sermon of the Anglican Communion at the National Arena Sunday.
Archbishop Sentamu said the people should not try be somebody else. ” God rejoices in the fact that he created each one of you ,” he said. ” That is the greatest message of the sermon this morning, be yourself and don’t try and be somebody else.”
“Believe in god is not simply to believe in ideas it is to carry about the very reality that god talks about,” he told the packed arena, where people had converged in their Sunday best.
Archbishop Sentamu called upon to people to go out and do what never has been done before – attempting the impossible.” You should be reaching out to the people who are desperately searching for meaning and for belonging.”
He asked the people to reach out and work at the grassroots. Quoting a sermon from the Archbishop of Zanzibar, he said, “now go out to the highways and bi ways look for Jesus in the rugged and the naked, the people who have lost hope and those who are struggling to make good .”
Archbishop of York sent out a message to be humble, “When I became the bishop of Birmingham I reminded everybody else, when you see me as the bishop and looking so gorgeously dressed just do remember the day Jesus entered Jerusalem, he rode on a donkey,” he said.
” The people dressed up that donkey to take Jesus downtown Jerusalem, so when you see me dressed up like a bishop very very funny clothes, I am simply a donkey taking my Jesus downtown Birmingham.”
“That’s true,” Archbishop Sentamu added “my brother bishops all you are…mere donkeys taking Jesus in places where there is no love where there is no hope where there is no justice. ”
“Have Jesus on you lips and the world in your heart, ” Archbishop Sentamu said “you have been called to freedom to work with justice and to embrace responsibility.”
The Archbishop of York to be objective and look at things rationally, ” look at your past failures and achievements from the eyes of an accountant and whatever you have lost or gained let Christ be you prize let Christ always be your balance sheet.”