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An Yi Masa Baftisma cikin Kiristi

Iyayen Bishop Byers sun gabatar da shi tun yana jariri, aka kuma yi masa baftisma a ikkilisiyar Methodist ta Caroleen, North Carolina, a ranar 7 ga Afirilu, 1968. Ya karɓi wannan baftisma daga hannun Ubangiji, ta wurin bangaskiyar mahaifiyarsa da mahaifinsa.

Ikkilisiyar Iyali

Tun daga haihuwarsa har ya tafi makarantar koyon aikin lauya a kaka ta shekara ta 1996, ikkilisiyarsa ita ce First United Methodist Church a Caroleen. Ikkilisiyar iyali ce a cikakkiyar ma’ana. Mahaifinsa da baffanninsa, dukansu magina ne ta sana’a, su suka gina cocin da hannuwansu, kuma yawancin iyalin Byers sun yi sujada a can.

Bangaskiya ita ce al’amarin yau da kullum na iyalin. Mahaifinsa ya yi hidima a matsayin shugaban ’yan ikkilisiya (lay leader) na ikkilisiyar, yakan kuma jagoranci ibada a duk lokacin da mai hidimar da aka naɗa ba ya nan. Ɗaya daga cikin baffanninsa ya yi hidima a matsayin mai hidima na United Methodist har zuwa ritayarsa, ɗan wannan baffan kuma ya bi shi a cikin wannan hidima, shi ma ya yi ritaya tun daga lokacin. Wani ɗan’uwansa ya shugabanci ƙungiyar mawaƙan ikkilisiyar shekaru da dama, sauran ’yan iyali kuma a lokuta dabam-dabam sun yi hidima a majalisar gudanarwar ikkilisiyar, sun koyar a makarantar Lahadi, sun kuma riƙe wasu matsayi a ikkilisiyar. Garland ya rera waƙa a ƙungiyar mawaƙan yara tun yana yaro.

Iyalinsa na ikkilisiya ya fi ’yan’uwansa na jini yawa. Membobi da yawa da ba su da dangantaka da shi ta jini ’yan’uwa maza da mata ne a gare shi cikin Kiristi, kuma sun kasance kusa da shi dukan rayuwarsa. Tun daga lokacin yakan koma ya yi sujada a can lokaci-lokaci.

Kiran Yin Hidima

Bishop Byers ya fara aikinsa na yi wa waɗansu hidima a matsayin ɗan sanda a North Carolina yana da shekara ashirin. Ya yi aiki a matsayin ɗan sandan birni, a matsayin mataimakin sheriff na gunduma (county), daga ƙarshe kuma a matsayin mai bincike na jiha a ofishin babban mai gabatar da ƙara (district attorney) na abin da a lokacin ake kira Lardi na 29, lardin da ya ƙunshi gundumomi biyar. A cikin kusan shekara takwas yana aikin tabbatar da doka, ya kama mutane da yawa da ake zargi da manyan laifuffuka, ya kuma karɓi takardun yabo da dama na yanki saboda jaruntaka da kuma hidima abar yabo ga al’umma. A shekara ta 1996, Ma’aikatar Shari’a ta North Carolina ta ba shi Takardun Shaidar Tabbatar da Doka na Matakin Farko, na Tsakiya da na Gaba. Kusan kashi ɗaya cikin ɗari na jami’an tabbatar da doka a jihar ne suke da Takardar Shaida ta Matakin Gaba.

A shekara ta 1996, yayin da yake shugaban masu bincike na ofishin babban mai gabatar da ƙara, ya nemi shiga makarantar koyon aikin lauya aka kuma karɓe shi, ya kuma fara aikinsa na shari’a a wannan shekara. A cikin aikinsa na shari’a, ya yi aiki a matsayin mai gabatar da ƙara a ƙarƙashin manyan masu gabatar da ƙara huɗu da aka zaɓa, a wasu lokuta yana kula da gundumomi bakwai. Sauran aikinsa ya kasance na lauyan kotu, yana wakiltar masu ƙara a ƙararrakin farar hula, yana kuma kare waɗanda ake tuhuma a ƙararrakin laifuffuka, musamman matalauta.

A cikin waɗannan shekaru ne aka kira shi zuwa hidimar Kiristi.

Kiran Yin Hidimar Bishara

Wajen shekara ta 2007, Bishop Byers ya ji kiran Ubangiji zuwa hidimarsa. Manzo Bulus ya ba da shawara:

“Ya kamata kowa yă kasance a matsayin da yake ciki sa’ad da Allah ya kira shi.”1 Korintiyawa 7:20 (SRDK)

Lauya ne sa’ad da kiran ya zo, kuma ya ci gaba da zama lauya.

Tun daga lokacin da ya ji wannan kira, ya nemi wata ƙungiyar ikkilisiya da take tsaye a cikin ingantaccen gadon manzanni wadda zai nemi naɗi a cikinta. Akwai wasu damammaki da yawa a buɗe a gare shi, amma saboda batun gadon manzanni, Ubangiji ya bishe shi zuwa Lutheran Orthodox Church. A can Babban Bishop Mai Jagoranci Samuel Guido, Jr., wanda a lokacin shi ne Babban Bishop a kan dukan ɗarikar, ya yi masa kiwo, kuma a gare shi ne yake ba da lissafi kai tsaye. Daga Babban Bishop Guido ya koyi abubuwa da yawa game da bangaskiya, game da yadda ya kamata mai hidimar bishara ya tafiyar da kansa, da kuma game da babban nauyin da wannan matsayi yake ɗauke da shi.

Horarwa

Bishop Byers ba shi da wani digiri na hukuma a ilimin tauhidi. Horarwarsa ta zo ne ta wurin shekaru na nazari mai horo, da kuma ta wurin hidima ƙarƙashin jagorancin Babban Bishop Mai Jagoranci Samuel Guido, Jr. da Bishop Michael J. Kline na Exorcist Order of St. Michael. Ƙwarewar lauya (bincika tambaya har zuwa tushenta, da auna iko da shaida) tana shiga cikin al’amuran bangaskiya a sauƙaƙe. Ya yi amfani da su ta wurin sa’o’i da yawa na zurfafa nazarin Nassi, da Iyayen Ikkilisiya na Zamanin Manzanni, da Iyayen Hamada, da majalisun Ikkilisiya.

Abubuwan da Ya Gaskata

Bishop Byers yana furta Ƙa’idar Bangaskiya ta Manzanni gaba ɗaya a matsayin ƙa’idar bangaskiyarsa, yana kuma gaskata Ƙa’idar Bangaskiya ta Nicaea.

Ya gaskata cewa akwai bishara ɗaya ta Yesu Kiristi. Inda ɗarikun Kirista da masu bi suka bambanta, bambance-bambancen sukan taso ne galibi daga rashin fahimtar ɗan Adam, ko daga rarrabuwa da rashin jituwa da maƙiyi ya tayar da gangan, wanda Ubangiji ya ce game da shi, “shi maƙaryaci ne, uban ƙarairayi kuma” (Yohanna 8:44).

Ya gaskata cewa mutanen Allah suna ƙishin saninsa, albarkarsa da kasancewarsa a rayuwarsu, kuma waɗanda suka gaskata da gaske suna neman fuskarsa: “Zuciyata kan faɗa game da kai, “Nemi fuskarsa!” Fuskarka, Ubangiji, zan nema.” (Zabura 27:8).

Ya gaskata cewa babu wata ɗarika guda da take da dukan gaskiya, sai dai gaskiya tana warwatse a cikin ɗarikun masu bi na Kirista. Ya kuma gaskata cewa Shaiɗan, wanda ake kira kuma Iblis, ba ya so ’yan Adam su kai ga sanin gaskiya, sai dai yana neman hallakarwa kawai: “Ɓarawo yakan zo don yă yi sata ne kawai da kisa da kuma ɓarna” (Yohanna 10:10).

Abin da aka rasa ƙwarai a wannan mugun zamani na yanzu, in ji shi, shi ne murya mai kira a hamada (Ishaya 40:3; Mattiyu 3:3). Wato, tushen gaskiya wanda ba ya ƙarƙashin wata ɗarika ko wata siyasa, ba shi da wata manufa sai wa’azi da isar da Maganar Allah ta gaskiya, ba tare da tacewa ko hanawa daga ayyuka da siyasar addini na hukumomi gaba ɗaya ba. Bishop Byers zai rubuta gaskiya yadda ya fahimce ta, ba tare da la’akari da fifikon ɗarika, ko abin da ake ganin ya dace a siyasance, ko tasirin kuɗi a kan asusun ikkilisiya ba. Kamar kowane bishop da aka kira aka kuma keɓe bisa inganci, an ba shi ikon matsayinsa mai tsarki don ya yanke shawara a kan al’amuran bangaskiya, kuma zai yi haka ba tare da son zuciya ko nuna bambanci ba.

Yana neman haɗin kan mutanen Allah, duk da haka yana tuna da kalmomin Ubangiji: “Kada fa ku ɗauka na zo ne don in kawo salama a duniya. A’a, ban zo don in kawo salama ba, sai dai takobi” (Mattiyu 10:34). Bin muryarsa zai raba, bisa ga yanayinsa, abin da dole ne a raba. Za a aiwatar da wannan aiki ta wurin jerin rubuce-rubuce domin masu bi na Kirista.

Naɗawa

A ranar 17 ga Agusta, 2008, ta wurin ɗibiya hannuwa a St. Paul’s Lutheran Orthodox Chapel a Palmerton, Pennsylvania, aka naɗa shi a matsayin Mai Hidimar Bishara.

Tun daga naɗinsa har zuwa keɓewarsa, ya yi hidima a matsayin Mai Hidimar Bishara a Diocese na Western North Carolina, kuma a matsayin Daraktan Al’amuran Shari’a na ikkilisiyar.

Wasiƙar Tabbatarwa

A cikin shekarun da suke tsakanin naɗinsa da keɓewarsa, Babban Bishop Guido ya gabatar da shi ga Bishop Michael J. Kline. Su biyun suka zama abokai na ƙwarai, Bishop Byers kuma ya zama memba na Exorcist Order of St. Michael, wanda Bishop Kline yake shugabanta a lokacin. Ya taimaki Bishop Kline a wasu al’amura na aikin bishop.

Bishop Kline ba memba ne na Lutheran Orthodox Church ba, kuma shawarar keɓe Bishop Byers ta rataya ga wannan ikkilisiya ita kaɗai. Ba a bukaci wata wasiƙa daga gare shi ba. Amma saboda aikin da suka yi tare, da kuma saboda tabbataccen gaskatawarsa cewa ya kamata a keɓe Bishop Byers, Bishop Kline ya haɗa kai a cikin hukuncin bishop-bishop cewa ya cancanta, kuma cewa kiran da yake kan rayuwarsa na zama bishop a cikin gadon manzanni gaskiya ne. A ranar 18 ga Afirilu, 2013, ya ba da wannan wasiƙar yarda da tabbatarwa.

Keɓewa zuwa Tsarkakan Matsayin Bishop

A ranar 20 ga Afirilu, 2013, a St. Paul’s Lutheran Orthodox Chapel, wadda a wannan rana ta yi taro a American Legion Post 16, Slatington, Pennsylvania, aka keɓe Garland F. Byers, Jr. zuwa Tsarkakan Matsayin Bishop ta wurin ɗibiya hannuwa a lokacin bikin Tsattsarkan Eucharist, ya kuma zama Bishop na Diocese na Western North Carolina.

A wannan rana, ikkilisiyar ta ba shi digirin Dakta a Ilimin Tauhidi, honoris causa, domin girmama aikinsa a kan al’amura da tambayoyin tauhidi na ikkilisiyar, kamar yadda ikkilisiyoyi sukan saba yi a wasu lokuta.

Babban Bishop, da Tafiya cikin Ƙauna

Daga baya an ɗaukaka Bishop Byers zuwa Babban Bishop na Diocese na Western North Carolina. Bayan haka ya janye daga Lutheran Orthodox Church. Shawarar tasa ce, ya yanke ta ne saboda dalilai na kashin kai, kuma ba ta taso daga wani saɓani da wani memba na Majalisar Bishop-bishop ko na hukumar gudanarwa ba. Yana nan cikin tarayya da su. Yana ƙaunar kowane memba na wannan ikkilisiya a matsayin ɗan’uwa ko ’yar’uwa cikin Kiristi, yana kuma godiya saboda rabon da suka taka wajen kawo shi ga Kiristi da kuma ƙarƙashin tsarkakan matsayi.

Bishop ga Al’ummai, ƙarƙashin Umarnin Manzanci

Bayan keɓewarsa, an sa Bishop Byers ya gane cewa kiransa ba na zama fasto na wata ikkilisiya ba ne, ko na yin hidima a matsayin bishop na diocese mai kula da masu hidima na wani yanki. Kiransa shi ne hidimar Maganar Allah,^§ da gabatar da koyarwa ta gaskiya a gaban mutanen Allah.

Yana bayyana wannan aiki da kalmomin Ubangiji kansa:

Sa’an nan ya ce musu, “Saboda haka duk malamin dokokin da ya horu game da koyarwar mulkin sama, yana kama da maigida wanda yakan fitar daga ɗakin ajiyarsa sababbin dukiya da kuma tsofaffi.”Mattiyu 13:52 (SRDK)

A matsayinsa na Magatakardan Mulki, yakan fitar da sababbin abubuwa da tsofaffi, yana kuma auna su duka bisa bisharar Yesu Kiristi, Ruhu Mai Tsarki kuma shi ne jagoransa. Yana ɗiban shaidar kowace al’adar Kirista a sake, ba ya magana a madadin wata ɗarika, yana kuma neman haɗin kan Ikkilisiyar Kiristi.

Ba ya da’awar wani iko na diocese ko na yanki a kan wata ikkilisiya ko ɗarika, a ko’ina. Yana rubutu ƙarƙashin umarnin da Kiristi ya ba manzanninsa:

“Saboda haka ku tafi, ku mai da dukan al’umman duniya su zama almajiraina, kuna yi musu baftisma a cikin sunan Uba, da na Ɗa, da na Ruhu Mai Tsarki, kuna kuma koya musu, su yi biyayya da duk abin da na umarce ku, kuma tabbatacce, ina tare da ku kullum, har ƙarshen zamani.”Mattiyu 28:19–20 (SRDK)

Ko da yake yana ganin kansa a matsayin Magatakardan Mulki, Bishop Byers yana riƙe da cikakken ikon sakramenti na matsayin bishop, kuma yana iya yin kowane aikin sakramenti da yake na wannan matsayi.

Hidimar Maganar Allah, aikin Magatakardan Mulki, an bayyana ta gaba ɗaya a ƙarƙashin Wallafe-wallafe, inda aka ba rubuce-rubucensa lambobi bisa jerin lokacin wallafa su, aka kuma sa musu kwanan wata.

Takardun Shaida masu Zaman Kansu

Masu karatu da suke so su tabbatar da wannan tarihi suna iya duba waɗannan:

• Lutheran Orthodox Church, Clergy List (jerin masu hidima), wanda ya ambaci Garland Byers a cikin masu hidimar da aka rubuta sunayensu. Ko da yake Bishop Byers ba shi da alaƙa da Lutheran Orthodox Church na wasu shekaru, yana nan cikin tarayya da ita, kuma yana da izinin gudanar da ibada a ikkilisiyoyinta idan ta roƙa. Clergy List jerin masu hidimar da aka amince da su ne, ba na masu hidima da suke aiki ƙarƙashin shugabancin ɗarikar ba.
• Lutheran Orthodox Church, Convocation 2013, labarin ikkilisiyar game da Babban Taronta na Afirilu 2013, inda aka keɓe bishop-bishop.
• Lutheran Orthodox Church, Apostolic Lineage, wanda ya rubuta keɓewar Babban Bishop Samuel Guido, Jr. a birnin New York a ranar 11 ga Yuli, 2004, ta hannun Babban Bishop Nils Bertil Persson, tare da Manyan Bishop Peter Paul Brennan da Irl Gladfelter a matsayin masu keɓewa tare da shi.
• Gadon Manzanni na Bishop Byers, wanda yake bin jerin magadansa har zuwa ga Manzanni.