On Friday the Standing Committee of the Methodist Church in Fiji announced that the Church is going to be serious with its work of reconciliation.
President-elect Reverend Tuikilakila Waqairatu unveiled the principles of reconciliation in the lead-up to Christmas and the church’s continuing effort in nation-building through grace.
Reverend Waqairatu said the principles of reconciliation had been passed in the previous conference and the work of reconciliation is not new to the church.
He said reconciliation was a mission for all the churches but for the Methodist Church, this needed to be internal and external.
“The church needs to clean itself. It needs to reconcile. There are some things we need to clean ourselves of — that is relationships between ministers and relationships between the church and some vanua chiefs,” he said.
“We need to clean ourselves before we go out and stretch our hands to say we would like to amend our relationship with other churches and with the vanua and the state.”
The Methodist Church is the largest Christian denomination in Fiji.
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