"... no longer invisible ..." Justice and healing for the individual in the City of Tshwane

Abstract

The urban community participating in this Bible study can indeed not only open the eyes of the "trained reader", but also expose the (spiritual) blindness that often besets the elite when reading and preaching the text. These readings can be exercises in dulling the senses of the readers, as well as those who are supposedly trained to be able to discern. However, unless our "contemplative gaze" leads to the invisible becoming concrete in order to see God in concrete ways, it would seem that the power and presence of God, in the human incarnation of Jesus Christ, has been missed. The signs, even where political organisation, hard skills, transformation or education becomes a necessary reality, remains pointers to the God who became human, the Son of Man, the light of the world - the city healed and transformed, a pointer to the heavenly Jerusalem, where justice and peace dwell (2 Peter 3: 13)