Dimensions (life rules, thoughts, attitudes) to freedom

• God is love, power and justice, the living force of freedom from moral and physical captivity.
  
  
• We shall not bow down or serve any human institution, technology or riches, but let our worship be actualized in the service of many people in all their poverty and degradation.
  
  
• We shall not define others according to our own preconceptions; but recognize our creative presence in all people struggling for human redemption.
  
  
• We shall not be wasteful of any day, but remember “to keep all days holy is to live creatively”.
  
  
• We shall remember the soul and devotion of the extended family, to keep it intact; that isolation and conflict be banished from the land forever.
  
  
• We shall not deny our brother or sister their dignity, because to despise a man or woman is to murder them.
  
  
• We shall not sell our integrity for personal gain, but invest our life in the cause of humanity.
  
  
• We shall not live by the exploitation of others; but shall strive for the sharing of prosperity
  
  
• We shall not classify or humiliate our neighbor, for the culture and language of racism and other "ism" perverts your soul.
  
  
• We shall not be jealous of the achievements of our friends, but rejoice in them always.

Communion with God

Communion with God, sharing God's life, involves a mutual bonding with all in this world. Jesus taught us to love God and one another and that the concept of neighbor is without limit.

We know that we are called to be members of a new covenant of love. We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence, to a commitment to human solidarity.

Poverty

Poverty is not only a question of having no material goods. Is the lack of human rights not also a form of poverty?

Through the eyes of faith, the starving child, the believer in jail, and the woman without clean water or health care are not issues, but Jesus in disguise. The human and moral costs of the arms trade, international debt, environmental neglect, and ethnic violence are not abstractions, but tests of our faith. Violence in the Holy Land, tribal combat in Africa, religious persecution, and starvation around the world are not just headlines, but a call to action. As Christians, we are called to renew the earth, not escape its challenge.

When people join with others to demand respect for their dignity and rights, not only do they help themselves, but they also build up the entire community and advance the common good. Our faith calls us to engagement, not retreat—to renew the earth, not flee the world.

Work remains a good thing, not only because it is useful and enjoyable, but also because it expresses and increases the worker's dignity. Through work we not only transform the world, we are transformed ourselves, becoming "more a human being."

The sense of community and humane living are highly cherished values of traditional African life. This statement remains true in spite of the apparent disarray in the experience of modern politics and brutal internecine wars in many parts of the Continent. For traditional Africans, the community is basically sacred, rather than secular, and surrounded by several religious forms and symbols.

A visitor to Africa is soon struck by the frequent use of the first person plural 'we', 'ours' in everyday speech. In modern African urban cities, primary community loyalties of one's extended family and village, continue to exert their hold over people who live away from the communities of their home-towns.

People generally return to their villages from their residence in the cities from time to time to join members of their village community to celebrate important traditional rituals and cultural events like initiation, title-taking or festival. From their residence in urban cities, they send substantial financial contributions to their rural home communities to support various development projects like provision of electricity and pipe-borne water, building of educational institutions and scholarship awards, funds to send young men and women on further studies in foreign countries or in one's own country.