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

The Summary of Key Concepts section allows for you to have quick scan of the central ideas, doctrines, and truths covered in the lesson. They represent the fundamental truths of the entire learning sessions written in declarative sentence form. These ideas are meant to be the residual messages of the lesson, that is, those insights which the lesson’s study, interaction, and investigation were meant to unearth and make plain to the students. Rehearsing these statements is your way to cement the central ideas of the study sessions in the minds of the students, and provide them with a ready reference to the outline of the lesson. Make sure that these concepts are clearly defined and carefully considered, for their quiz work and exams will be taken from these items directly. The Student Application and Implications section challenges the student to wrestle with the implications of the lesson for their own life and ministry. It is quite easy for students to forget that the point of our work is not merely to consider ideas, but to connect the content of the lesson to their actual Sitz im Leben (German for “situation in life”). Each student must be challenged to ponder the personal ramifications of the truths contained in the lesson for his or her own life, and explore the ideas as they might relate to their own ministry. Your role, therefore, is to enable your students to think through the central truths with an eye toward their own situations. You may wish to design some questions or use those provided below as water to “prime the pump” of their interests, so to speak. What is significant here is not the questions written below, but for you, in conversation with your students, to settle on a cadre of issues, concerns, questions, and ideas that flow directly from their experience, and relate to their lives and ministries. Do not hesitate to spend the majority of time on some question that arose from the video, or some special concern that is especially relevant in their ministry context right now. The goal of this section is for you to enable them to think critically and theologically in regards to their own lives and ministry contexts. Again, the questions below are provided as guides and primers, and ought not to be seen as absolute necessities. Pick and choose among them, or come up with your own. The key is relevance now, to their context and to their questions.

7 Page 45 Summary of Key Concepts

8 Page 47 Student Application and Implications