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

4. The right for clothing and shelter ( fair housing, homelessness )

5. The right for food and sustenance ( world hunger and relief )

6. A number of congresses, conventions, and international consultations throughout the 20th century have sought to define the fundamental rights of human beings (economic, political, religious, civil, and human rights).

E. The Church’s responsibility in regard to poverty and oppression

1. Conform your personal and family economic lifestyle to the kingdom ethic.

a. Contentment, 1 Tim. 6.6-10

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b. Generosity, 2 Cor. 9.6-8

c. Hospitality, Heb. 13.1-2

2. How the local body can seek to address particular needs of poverty and oppression in their community

a. Function in the body of Christ according to the principles of unity and equality.

(1) Unity : the earth is the Lord’s, and therefore all the things we hold belong to him, Ps. 24.1-2.