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‘SEEING A SRI LANKAN MAN BECOME ARCHBISHOP MADE ME WEEP by ANNE LIM<\/span><\/h1>\n

\"'SEEING<\/p>\n

Source:-eternitynews<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"AnneThe night after Sri Lankan priest Kanishka Raffel was elected Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Jeri Jones Sparks woke up at 4am in pain and couldn\u2019t get back to sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the daughter of Tamil-speaking migrants from India, the Assistant Minister for Outreach at St James Anglican Church Croydon, in Sydney\u2019s inner west, had been praying for Raffel in his quest to lead the Sydney diocese (region). Seeking distraction, Jeri watched the sermon he gave after his history-making inauguration and surprised herself at how emotional she became.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI just wept the entire time. I didn\u2019t realise how meaningful it was to me to see a \u2018brown uncle\u2019 as Archbishop,\u201d she tells\u00a0Eternity<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt does mean a lot, it\u2019s more than symbolism and it\u2019s also a sign of hope of what the Anglican Church can be and makes me prouder to be a part of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"'SEEING<\/p>\n

Jeri Jones Sparks<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jeri is elated that she has just been awarded a grant of $18,000 from Anglican Deaconess Ministries to direct and develop a course of eight evangelistic videos in Tamil and Hindustani, called the Good News Course, which will reach and empower her South Asian culture to share the gospel with their friends and neighbours.<\/span><\/p>\n

At St James, Jeri runs four evangelistic courses and while they all have their strengths, their common weakness is that they speak to the dominant culture and its biases, she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not landing from a values or world view, especially that first generation of migrants.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They take a propositional approach \u2013 putting forward a concept, running through a flow of logic and then asking for a response from the hearer; that just doesn\u2019t \u201cland for migrant groups from the global south.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo talking vaguely Eastern cultures, those are just not the questions that people are asking. It\u2019s not landing from a values or world view, especially that first generation of migrants,\u201d she explains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was born in India, but I\u2019m very much a third-culture kid. So it resonates with me because I have both those lenses. But for that first generation, it\u2019s just not serving them where they need.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The core content of the course that Jeri will develop, in partnership with theologically astute and creative people from each cultural group, is based on a methodology for explaining the gospel that her father Joseph has developed and tested over the past 12 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up watching my dad develop this content and it\u2019s been super-super-effective,\u201d says Jeri.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a constant feedback loop of understanding what people respond to and what hits home. So I feel really confident about the core framework.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Using the Alpha course as a product model, the Good News Course will have three distinctive elements \u2013 heart language, cultural resonance and robust reformed theology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like Alpha, it will offer full training so that anyone can run it in their church and it will highlight the cultural value of hospitality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s a big emphasis on biblical theology. Over the eight weeks, we really do begin with Adam and tell the story of Abraham and it builds in that way. In the West, we often approach it individualistically rather than approaching biblical theology as community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad makes all the difference between grace and karma. This really taps into the power and fear basis of Hinduism and a lot of the other Eastern religions. So the presentation of grace is mind-blowing in a different way.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like the healing of someone\u2019s personal guilt; it\u2019s that you\u2019re speaking about freedom from retribution from a higher power rather than I\u2019m sitting there with a conscience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re speaking about freedom from retribution from a higher power rather than I\u2019m sitting there with a conscience.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Growing up, Jeri constantly witnessed the miraculous power of salvation. After her father came to faith through Tamil-speaking friends soon after migrating to Sydney in 2000, he decided the gospel was too good to keep to himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt home, Dad was constantly preaching the gospel and I saw the power of salvation before my eyes. So the power of conversion was prominent in my life,\u201d Jeri says.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Jeri didn\u2019t at first share her father\u2019s passion for evangelism. While she never doubted the existence of God, she resisted her parents\u2019 urgings to commit her life to Jesus, burdened by the feeling that she was living a double life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was a different person at home and church from how I was at school. So in early high school, it was really sinking in for me that God was real. I was annoyed at my parents because my dad was doing all this ministry and experienced pressure from their passion to make that personal decision and my faith in myself. I really didn\u2019t want to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In her rebellion, she researched all the world religions in a quest to prove her parents wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut as I thought and read more of the Bible and looked into some apologetic stuff, I just became more and more convinced that the God of the Bible is the God of the universe and he\u2019s real and working,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

This culminated on a Sunday night after hearing a sermon on Romans 1 and 2, when her sin and unrighteousness weighed on her so heavily that she couldn\u2019t sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really had a sense of if I died tonight, I couldn\u2019t look God in the eye. I knew who he was, but I hadn\u2019t accepted this salvation, because I was just feeling like faith wouldn\u2019t be fun or I would have to play by the rules if I made that decision.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The next day on her commute home from school, she overheard a boy witnessing to his friend and quoting Ephesians 2:8-9. It was a passage she knew by heart \u2013 that she was saved by grace, not of her own works; it\u2019s a gift of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I heard it, the penny just dropped and I understood what grace was like. It\u2019s like my eyes were opened in some way,\u201d she recalls.<\/span><\/p>\n

She ran home, weeping, to tell her \u201csuper-elated\u201d parents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though that moment in Year 7 was pivotal, she still felt a distinction between who she was on Sunday and who she was during the week.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this disparity between who I was on Sunday and at school really grew. I would have always called myself a Christian, but I didn\u2019t know if there was a lot of fruit in my life to prove that. By the time I got to late high school, my identity was completely wrapped up in what people thought of me and my reputation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At that point, her home church group decided to disband and attend a local church, which happened to be MBM at Rooty Hill. There she attended her first youth group and met kids her own age whose lives were consistent on Friday and Sunday at church and during the week.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI could see the Lordship of Christ in their lives in a way that I couldn\u2019t see mine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI realised that my whole life belonged to Jesus. I couldn\u2019t pick and choose.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The key turning point came at a youth camp while listening to a youth minister\u2019s talk called \u201c24\/7 Jesus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI realised that my whole life belonged to Jesus. I couldn\u2019t pick and choose. I couldn\u2019t compartmentalise. It really struck me. And I think because I had a solid foundation in the Bible, the change and maturity from that point on was pretty drastic. That was the more pronounced start of my Christian journey. If I\u2019m honest, that\u2019s when everything became a bit more integrated, newfound love for the Bible and really grew in my faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeri had wanted to be an English teacher her whole life, but after high school she ran into severe health problems so she had to quit uni and take a year off.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was just sitting at home feeling sorry for myself. So ended up basically doing MTS (Ministry Training Strategy) at MBM. It was unofficial, but I was there four days a week and I just fell in love with ministry. So I started the journey and went to Bible college really young.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we get a diversity of people to represent and teach and uphold the gospel in the kingdom of God in Sydney, and beyond?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over the past few years, as Jeri has encountered challenges in her ministry, she\u2019s wondered whether being an Anglican minister is the right route for her. But now she is excited to be able to share the resources and heritage of the reformed evangelical church in Australia with a diversity of people so that the vision of Revelation 9:17 of all the nations around the throne worshipping the lamb can be realised.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy reflection over the past two years has been how exactly do we want to evangelise to all these groups in Sydney?\u201d she says, pointing out that 15 per cent of the Australian population were born in another country.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really saw that as the missing piece in the power dynamics that happen when the beautiful well-meaning white minister is running a course and expects the migrant down the road to cross all these cultural barriers to come to a Christian setting, to hear the gospel from him in English. Like that makes no sense. I think we have to do better at that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As director of the Good News Course, Jeri is partnering with City to City Australia, a church renewal and church planting network, and Crossview, experts at video production.<\/span><\/p>\n

She says there are also opportunities for other partnerships, so if you are keen to know more, contact her on\u00a0jeri@thegoodnewscourse.org<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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