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is concerned about the American inner city because of its staggering number of underclass and poor families. 9. Summarize the key biblical data on how the city is the picture and symbol of our spiritual destiny and inheritance, in the sense of the hope of the New Jerusalem; this will be the city not where God is absent and where arrogance rules, but where God is present, and Jesus is adored as Lord of all. Show how the explicit goal of mission is to rob the cities of the world in order to fill up and populate the New Jerusalem, the true mother of all believers ( God’s final urban renewal project ). 10. Restate the key implications for understanding the centrality of the city for urban mission, i.e., how in all our mission praying, giving and sending we must focus on the cities, we must recruit more spiritual laborers to serve in the city, strategize how to affect unreached cities with the Gospel, and pray for the city and seek its safety, finding our safety in its preservation. 1. Define the concept of the poor in light of the biblical vision of shalom , or wholeness: shalom is the Hebrew term for “fullness of human community in fellowship with God and with one another.” 2. Outline the elements of shalom including its experience of health and wellness, safety and protection, harmony between neighbors, prosperity and material sufficiency, and the absence of malice and conflict – genuine peace. This also includes the idea of shalom as God’s gracious provision, as connected with the coming of the Messiah who is the Prince of shalom , as well as shalom as the standard for the people of God. 3. Explain how poverty is the denial of God’s shalom , how his blessing was to prevent the occurrence of poverty, and the commands to the covenant community were designed to ensure justice and righteousness among Yahweh’s people, and that faithfulness to the covenant was designed for the continuation of shalom among the Israelites as they obeyed his voice and met its conditions.

Teaching Objectives for Capstone, by Module

After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to:

Objectives for Lesson 4 Christian Mission and the Poor