Doing Justice and Loving Mercy: Compassion Ministries, Mentor's Guide, MG16

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D O I N G J U S T I C E A N D L O V I N G M E R C Y : C O M P A S S I O N M I N I S T R I E S

b. His life and ministry represents the overthrow of the devil and his reign of darkness.

c. Through his incarnation, death, and resurrection, the curse has been rescinded, sin has been judged, and the devil defeated.

d. The Church is the kingdom community, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, given the task to be the locus and agent of the Kingdom to Come in this present time. (1) T he locus of the Kingdom : the place where God’s presence, covenant, kingdom blessings, forgiveness, and people dwell (2) The agent of the Kingdom : the means by which God announces his kingdom reign to the world and demonstrates its freedom, wholeness, and justice

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II. Prolegomena: A Biblical Theology for Doing Justice and Loving Mercy

We must rediscover how a biblical view of God and humanity can provide us with the biblical ground for doing justice and loving mercy (adapted from John Stott).

A. God is the God of all nature as well as the God of salvation .

1. God is the God of the secular domain as well as the sacred.

2. Biblical testimony is clear and numerous.

a. Ps. 24.1-2

b. Deut. 10.14