Doing Justice and Loving Mercy: Compassion Ministries, Student Workbook, SW16

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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

Doing Justice and Loving Mercy (2) The Urban Community and Neighborhood

Welcome in the strong name of Jesus Christ! After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to: • Reaffirm the two critical truths in the Nicene Creed that underlie our understanding of serving in the world: God as creator and Jesus Christ as Lord of all. • Acknowledge the primary ways in which Scripture acknowledges how the Church responds to the lordship of Jesus Christ, serving both as the locus (place) of God’s working as well as his agent (ambassador) through whom he works. • Recite the four different and classic ways in Church history that Christians have understood the Church’s relationship to the world: to withdraw from the world and its affairs, to transform the world through direct oversight, to live in tension with the world, being in it but not of it, and finally to live as prophetic witness to the world in our model and proclamations. • Outline four of the biblical models of the Church which have immediate bearing on church/world relationships for urban life: we are called to be neighbors, the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and a royal priesthood of God in the city. • Detail the specific elements of ministry management to maximize opportunities in urban Christian outreach and justice: Prepare, Work, and Review or PWR. • Lay out in Scripture the foundation of all solid ministry management, i.e., the theology of God’s purpose and wisdom, and identify and refute the major barriers and objections that some might raise to planning ministry processes. • Give clearly and persuasively the key benefits to adopting a flexible but disciplined approach to urban ministry management. • Know how to mobilize gifted available team members for ministry using the specific items of the PWR process, highlighting the kinds of attitudes

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