The SIAFU Guidebook

Table of Contents

11 Anthems

The SIAFU Chant; Powerful in Battle for the Lord

13 Preface 17 Disclaimer Regarding World Impact, TUMI, and Our SIAFU Chapter s 19 Standing Together for Christ Inside the Walls: SIAFU in Prisons and Jails 23 Welcoming Brothers and Sisters Home: Ex-Offenders and Your SIAFU Chapter 27 Introduction: Welcome to the Mother of All Battles, the Campaign of Our Time

Part I Assembling God’s Warriors: Toward a Strategy to Win the City

41 Assembling God’s Warriors: Toward a Strategy to Win the City 42 The Bottom Line First: Jesus Christ Is Lord of All 43 You Are Not What You Appear:

Urban Disciples Are the Key to the City’s Healing

44 Unmobilized Means Unused: How the Disunity of Urban Believers Provides a Foothold for the Devil in the City 46 God’s Chosen Method to Heal the City: Rediscovering the Centrality of the Church 48 Reporting for Duty: Why the Rediscovery of Pastoral Authority Really Matters to the City 50 We All “Got the Gift”: The Universal Priesthood of the Believers, Urban Style 52 Free to Live, Free to Love: Urban Disciples Are Liberated in Christ to Do Good Works, Whenever We Can, Wherever We Are 53 Choose a Side, Make a Stand: Why You and Your Church Have an Important Part to Play in Your City’s Transformation