BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:258@firstafrikanchurch.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T210000 DTSTAMP:20250203T135843Z URL:https://firstafrikanchurch.org/events/wednesday-bible-study-february-2 025-2025-02-12/ SUMMARY:Wednesday Bible Study - February 2025 DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nVia Zoom at zoom.us/j/89067358496\nID: 860 4125 9075 \; Passcode: 346573\n\n\n\n\nBlack History Month 2025\nSermon and Study Se ries\nUbuntu\nI am because we are\, we are because I am.\n“Any action th at anyone in the community exhibits will impact everyone in the community. ”\nThe focus of First Afrikan’s 2025 Black History month sermon and st udy series is Ubuntu. The socio-philosophical idea of ubuntu originated am ong the peoples of Southeast Africa. It centers a profoundly humane spirit ual\, moral\, and ethical consciousness that encompasses all social\, poli tical and economic interactions.\n\nUbuntu predates the monotheistic tradi tions that guide and govern so much of the religious discourse\, practice and understanding of people in today’s world and it precedes the bald an d often vicious missionizing of the world’s three major religious tradit ions – Islam\, Christianity\, and Judaism.\n\nUbu refers to being. The r oot word in ubuntu is “ntu.” Ntu is “being itself\,” it is the sou rce from which all creation flows and without which nothing in creation ca n exist. In the southeast African and pre-Christian consciousness Muntu (h uman being)\, Kintu (thing)\, Hantu (place and time) and Kuntu (modality) are all the manifestations of Ntu. There is therefore a dynamic and integr ated unity (Umoja) in all existence. In short\, we (human beings) need one another as well as the climatic and environmental elements around us whet her we recognize that fact or not.\n\nUbuntu is summed up by both testamen ts of the Christian faith by the words “love your neighbor as you love y ourself (Leviticus 19:18\; Mark 12:30-31)”. Love of self has to do with the underlying principles and experiences\, thoughts and behaviors that de fine the self. Loving one’s neighbor is not a secondary consideration. L oving one’s neighbor is the dynamic and integrated result of self-love. One cannot love self without loving one’s neighbor nor can one love one ’s neighbor without loving oneself.\n\nThis year’s Black History Month celebration will interpret the bible through the lens of Ubuntu. Our serm ons and studies will examine what it means to Live in Community\, Walk Tog ether\, Forgiveness\, the Global Family or\, the interconnectedness of all human beings.\n\n\nStudy: Wednesday\, February 5\nTheme: Justice and Ubun tu: Walking Together\nScripture Lessons: Micah 6:8 &\; Luke 4:18-19\ n\n\n\nStudy: Wednesday\, February 12\nTheme: Ubuntu in Forgiveness: Heali ng Through Unity\nScripture Lessons: Matthew 18:21-22 &\; Colossians 3:12-14\n\n\n\nStudy: Wednesday\, February 19\nTheme: Ubuntu and the Body of Christ: A Global Family\nScripture Lessons: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 & amp\; Ephesians 4:1-6 CATEGORIES:bible study LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/89067358496 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR