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ARTICLE THREE
INTRODUCTION

One cannot hostility the reality that the church has responded to the anguish of the society in Sierra Leone. The level of the effect is on the other hand worth mentioning.

The churches' duty in providing battle conclusion programs is critical. Forgiveness and cooperation are obligatory teachings that are not logically been explored by the house of worship in Sierra Leone. Most churches form a one-time system on liberty as an alternative of production it a high status since it is one of the maximum primal virtues needful in Sierra Leone present. A hazardous culture underdeveloped in Sierra Leone nowadays is that of paying back. If destroyed victims come to nothing to grant their aggressors, they would in the fullness of time develop near hatred, faintly ready and waiting for all opportunity to reprisal. Some nation who were gangrenous beside the HIV microorganism during the war judge they should penalize by attractive in perverted sex through which they too broadcast the infectious agent. This underscores the blistering call for of league based eudaimonia work which is a precedence as is HIV/AIDS realization. Many young person soldiers attached the individualist activity (even in spite of this below duress) next to the article of faith that one day, they would grow up and line fur their perpetrators.

A natural scrutiny is that pardon is comparatively easier once the own has a near affinity beside Jesus Christ. This is the circumstance opposed to which the canvasser assesses the sermon effort of the basilica as far beneath expectations. The group wants to be evangelized and the right way discipled. Subsequently, the ideology of freedom would be shrewd taught in the regional minster assemblies. Perhaps this is one of the maximum of value way to apprehension the dodgy society of detestation which, if not decently arrested, will flipside its scrofulous cranium in the not-too-distant rising. Realistically, release and rapprochement could solely be meaningfully realized once evangelization and man of the cloth precision are stellar concerns of the clerical. For these and otherwise incidental to programs, the church in Sierra Leone necessarily to put in financially if any reasonable point of occurrence could be prerecorded. The misfortune of the basilica "now becomes the tough grind of love, the effort of redemption, positive those we love" (Kreft 1986, 138).

On a positive note, the past of the end of the nonconformist war cannot be sheer lacking chapters on the function of the christian church which contend an moving duty in stretch the order agreement of Lome on July 7, 2000, linking the rebels and the establishment. By bridging the gap involving some sides, it was able to convince the authorities to open conversation to the rebels. Humanitarian help was rendered to both governing body and nonconformist Revolutionary Armed Forces (RUF) groups. With the give your backing to of Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), the Inter Religious Council for natural event provided nutrient for both conflict forces. Through this mediation the cases of plundering have been weakened.
The above notwithstanding, in that is status for much signal from the place of worship in Sierra Leone in the areas of relief, rehabilitation, renovation and transportation programs. The parsonages, churches, schools, clinics and new institutions destroyed, vandalized or ravaged by rebels demand to be renovated or reconstructed for them to propagate to tennis stroke the population. In addition, the programs put unneurotic to address the difficulties of ex-combatant child-soldiers as okay as adults, orphans, women unmarried by the anarchist war, and counselling for traumatized group not solitary in the church but also in the communities at large-scale are scant. A crucial show disapproval of both the regime and the religion is the administration of reinforcement to the citizens in the capital at the expense of those in the different regions of the countryside wherever complete 70 cardinal percent of the population lives.

More programs are desperately required to address the issues of offspring and women. The bigoted society is oft unsusceptible to the necessarily of women in one who suffered most during the war. When husbands were killed, they took terminated the running of the house which, in an African setting, is recurrently highly full-size. Most of these families were rendered homeless. They were too victims of mustard and separate brutal corporal abuses same handicap of their arms and limbs. Until the place of worship addresses the down-to-earth necessarily of women and children, the personal estate of war would be coherently evident for decades to come.

The clerical in Sierra Leone essential identify itself near the difficulty of the ethnic group. This was just what Paul did in the alley of II Corinthians 1:3-7. In the thick of suffering, the Sierra Leonean basilica essential inert be indebted to God, performance praises to Him. This is noticeably demonstrated by Paul in the pericope affected. He begins the subsection with an harangue of commend. This is coaching the religious to ever accolade God in meanness of and not because of. When Paul and Silas were imprisoned, the circumstances were not humanly contributory to praise God but their eventual eulogize demonstrated they were alert of the certainty God should be praised at all times, a subject David echoes in Psalm 34:1. There requests to be a in earnest intimacy next to God to such as an degree that, similar to Paul, God is called 'our Father' in the greetings (II Cor. 1:2). The faith should not be unmindful of the promotive Scripture that observes that "the Lord is my determination and song, and He has get my salvation" (Exodus 15:2).

A big pedagogy for Sierra Leoneans is Paul's use of the name comfortableness. The extremist poverty of the house of worship in Sierra Leone, (which in actuality reflects the general conditions in the region), united near the much ill-being of the anarchist invasion, all reenforce the glow of succour. Although there are incompatible degrees of trouble, God's support is always for sale. This understanding is adequate to carry expectancy to a wretched church. The fire of place of worship buildings is not the end of the basilica. In fact, the true church is the assembly of saints and not the corporal structures. Some Christians who were members of a foremost church, Holy Trinity Church, one of the assemblies of the aristocrats in the society, ceased going to christian church after the rebels entirely burnt their cathedral during the southern penetration. Some, like-minded the Jews, could newly not grasp how God allowed it to occur.

Paul did not commitment the christian church a Christian life span absent of incapacitated. The veracity is that it is part of the pack of the Christian's habituation system of rules. In fact, he gathered on the inevitableness of it. Suffering to the Christian, is Christ's missive to move Him. Christ goes to the cross, and we are invitational to go to the aforementioned bad-tempered. Not because it is the cross, but because it is His. Suffering is fortunate not because it is sorrow but because it is His. Suffering is not the discourse that explains the cross; the bad-tempered is the linguistic context that explains suffering. The crisscross gives this new explanation to suffering; it is now not single relating God and me but also concerning Father and Son (Kreft 1986, 137).

The fitting report is that God can matter with any good-natured of difficulty and tender support for it.
The connexion of the quaternary epic to the circumstances in the house of worship in Sierra Leone is echolike in the information that the issue of unloading succour from God is the dexterity to portion comfort next to others. This generalization of joint encouragement is central to reading Paul's accepted wisdom and motivations throughout the missive. The Sierra Leanean religious should cognize that its sufferings, like, Paul, were really a affirmative coerce in his priesthood. Jesus is federal to the course of action of joint solace to that of others. Jesus assumes the character of Sonship at the formation of the pericope since He is the surrounding substance of both relief and wounded as suggested in the ordinal literary genre. If the confidence of the basilica in Sierra Leone is that's why improved on nil but Jesus, the realness is that, as a Sublime Example, He too suffered and Christians would likewise go through in their designation with Him. Though itchy at present, the faith in Sierra Leone essential make out that limerick 5 defines the drive trailing Paul's quality to cut consolation near others. If it shares in Christ's sufferings, it should as well part in His consolation. Abundant hardship brings abundant relief.

In reality, the faith in Sierra Leone should not decipher Christ's difficulty mentioned in poetry cardinal as partial and could be in good order quantified if it adds its own pain to it. Paul explains elsewhere in Scripture (Rom. 6:10) that this was a one time, alone affair or education. When the religious suffers, it is in truth informative the close bond with Christ whose pet name he actually bears. The duration of the religion in Sierra Leone, in remaining words, is the go of Christ- first of all next to its injured and its ultimate laurels. Paradoxically, the intensity level of the difficulty of the Christians in Sierra Leone may show witness (like Paul) of the exalted calling to be identified with Christ. Church members who missing their lives and were subjected to some other forms of pain once provoking to recovery souls should believe Christ as the godly instance. Falling at the back insurgent lines, eternal beatings once attempting to back feller Christians in out of the ordinary and the inhabitants in at-large is fair fragment of what the place of worship should be doing for a moribund world, believing that even if one dies in the process, there is eventual hope.

Kreft (1986) believes that Christ's coming, delivery of man, modification and resurrection are the property He utilised to lick the difficulty of wounded. As a event of the resurrection, once all our bodily process are over, one will, very manifestation back at them and laugh, not in scoffs but in joy. Paradoxically, an atheist, Ivan Karamozov, accomplishedly analyzes burden better-quality than some Christians once he observed thus:

I imagine approaching a shaver that pain will be recovered and made up for, that all the debasing nonsensicality of quality contradictions will disappear like-minded a insulting mirage, like-minded the ignoble false statement of the impotent and considerably petite Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the instant of changeless harmony, thing so valued will come up to intervene that it will suffice for all heart, for the uplifting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the humour that they've shed; that it will build it not just executable to forgive but to confirm all that has happened (Kreft 1986, 139).

Are population in involve of help? The statement is a reverberating yes. Christians who have full-fledged hardship have a large supremacy or are in a finer station to bequeath comfortableness to separate misery Christians. If it is realised that it is God who is in control, next the cathedral in Sierra Leone will see troubled as a godly decision. The belief of association spoken in the passageway is enormously considerable Christians in Sierra Leone. Since they suffered together, they will in due course experience in cooperation. This reciprocality of misfortune and assurance was helpful and explicitly embedded between Paul and the Corinthians.

FINDINGS

An investigating of the Pauline idea of distress as it relates to succour in the alleyway reasoned (II Corinthians 1:3-7) and a similar judgment of the direction in the of that period place of worship (particularly in Sierra Leone) reveals the quality of Paul's principle. Although God is the Father of all comfort, Sierra Leoneans in both instances assume it is not cushy to objectively valuate how God can see one done a extraordinary quality of difficulty. Consequently, they are in whatever fate not grateful to Him for their rancorous experiences. The participation of the priestly in the soldiers juntas present that a momentous take of Christians are yet to clutch Paul's phone call. Some are still much demonstrating that God livelihood them in writ that they too should succour others who are misfortune.

Paul demonstrates or illustrates that education of pain and encouragement flows from happiness to Christ and joint in his ministry. Paul deals near troubled and the Christian village. Sierra Leoneans, on various occasions, do not orientation family as a imperative association among Christians. Consequently, they don't rejoice both since they do not experience mutually. Some have left the land and people in body patch others are sounding for opportunities to paying back. Since they do not see God's paw in their suffering, acquittal and cooperation are not hot concepts in the church.

CONCLUSION

In meanness of large suffering, Christians in Sierra Leone essential cognise that God should be praised in both condition since He is a Father who gives hope to His offspring. Suffering is not necessarily from God. The truism is that "some troubled is man-made; war for illustration. But substantially is not, at most minuscule not in any pardon and frank way. We are born in misery and we die in suffering, whether we are warmongers or order mongers" (Kreft 1986, 170). God may permit it for a goal. There are nowadays once God vindicatory say 'no' since He has a more yes which could not be seen at the second. An global apprentice at West Africa Theological Seminary (WATS) was down because, humanly speaking, he had been marginalized in the ministry and younger pastors were given the chance to gain knowledge of not long after incoming the priesthood. It was during the insurgent war after his residence was lock, stock and barrel raped that he last of all obtained a award to office in WATS. The end of his research in the M.A. (Pastoral Ministry) coincided next to the set in motion of the Master of Divinity system in the private school and he became the front graduate, which enabled him to land a funding from Asbury Theological Seminary in the United States of America for a doctor's degree system of rules. He profited in hurting. Failing to know why God allowed his 'marginalization', he is now indebted for the storms that God filtered in his life.

The solacement lies in the reality that God provides support for His offspring. This assurance should not be an end in itself but to some extent a resources to an end. Having normative the hope of God during all kinds of suffering, the basilica in Sierra Leone has a amazingly awesome task to furnish succour for those who in bend are torment. Like Paul unfavorable Timothy to leave behind on what he has academic to dedicated men who will in go around pirate others also, Sierra Leonean Christians, after unloading God's guarantee essential also consolation others. When this is done, the relationship of Christians would be apparently apparent in the commonwealth. The guide of Dr. Bola Davies (real term unseen) of Sanders Street, a dynamic sermonizer in Sierra Leone is charge emulating. After his 16 time period old virgin female offspring was madly despoiled by mountain of rebels and brought backbone to him months after, he is exceptionally instrumental in counselling other people, Christian and non-Christians similar who underwent connatural ordeals.

A momentous tribulation in Sierra Leone present is accepting one's husband after one despoiled by rebels. A crust in spear is a Baptist Christian, Bro. Joshua Conteh (real dub withheld) whose adult female was destroyed by four rebels in his being. A physiological condition psychometric test conducted presently after this incident was cheerful and the male sibling first of all insisted that he would not male parent a fatherless juvenile and solidly recommended an termination. It took a projectile social unit of Christians who had suffered akin traumas to advocate him. Though painful, he at the end of the day accepted her. When she after a while delivered a healthy little one boy, the adolescent was permitted into a children's habitation. Bro. Conteh is now among a squad of Christians counselling victims of this harm.

The preceding notwithstanding, the christian church in Sierra Leone is single first to clinch next to the untasted realness. Even in spite of this the war is now a item of the past, the implications are felt in varied degrees. An horrifying and of all time going up numeral of Christians are now people next to HIV/AIDS. These Christians obligation content to some extent than reprimand.

The priestly in Sierra Leone essential be commended for the office vie in negotiating the end of the conflict. Rev. Theophilus Momoh, the indicative of of the Catholic Church on the nation's Inter-Religious Council post-free a proper praise to the office of the place of worship once he discovered thus:

Despite the loss and maiming that has occurred during Sierra Leone's well-bred war, the church urged talk and mercy. It is rugged to yield and forget because of the atrocities committed, but we unmoving emphasise the call for for talking. Even on the other hand the Catholic Church supports the Nigerian-led West African military operation forces, it prefers dialogue to go aboard it (Signs of the Times 1999).

The passage, 2 Corinthians 1:3-7, has a impressively under consideration statement to the church in Sierra Leone. Even nonetheless every cause is Father-filtered, God did not tyro nor did He will the sufferings in Sierra Leone. Amidst the suffering, God is he spring of all condition (including all forms of pain in Sierra Leone which well-qualified the bucolic as the bottom in the planetary). This guarantee is through His Son Jesus Christ, indicating that in attendance is no some other surrounding substance to Him. Sierra Leonean Christians who were comforted have an duty to be transmission of comfort. They must be instruments to faith of others.

REFERENCE LIST

Kreft, Peter. 1986. Making Sense Out of Suffering. Ann Harbor, Michigan : Servant Books.
Signs of the Times. 1999. America, 180(11)