Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
‘100 Men and More Thanking God’
St Philip’s District Six – 11 October 2008
Good evening! I was about to say ‘Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen’ but I realised we are all gentlemen – at least, I hope that all the men here tonight are actually gentlemen!!
Rector, Wardens and Parish Councillors of St Phillip the Deacon, thank you for your invitation.
This is my first ‘thank you’ tonight, as I speak about thanking God, and, in particular, thanking God for the influence of certain men in my life.
Let me start with the theme of thankfulness, of gratitude.
As I said in my Charge, at my installation way back in March (it sometimes seems a long time ago!) – as I said then, ‘Christian thinkers from the liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez to Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, insist that gratitude must be our first response to all we receive from God in Christ.’
In fact, everything that exists, is received from God in Christ.
