Questions:Have you found ministering to the poor in your life a hard thing and a burden or has it been a joy and a delight and made you feel free? Why or why not? Reading:In Acts 20, Paul leaves this…
Questions:What is the scriptural motivation for mercy and social justice? What things prevent you from being merciful? Reading: We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in…
Questions:The scriptures call us to engage in social justice, what does this look like? Reading: Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is…
Daily Life/The Challenge Questions:Do you see the Kingdom of God as physically or spiritually present, or both? When do you minister to the poor? Under what settings? Reading: “Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in…
Questions:Do you believe God commands us to minister to the poor? Why or Why not? What scriptures do you know, where God commands us to minister to the poor? Why is God so passionate about the righteous caring for the…
Gospel, The Kingdom of God breaking through Questions:In Deuteronomy 15:11, God states that the poor will never cease from the land, what did this indicate about the “Promised Land”? Reading:In Isaiah, we read this passage – “The Spirit of the…
Definition of the PoorDon’t think of the poor as just those who have little. In the scripture the idea of the poor can be extend to the orphan, the widow, the sojourner, the broken and destitute, someone taken advantage of,…
If any branch of a government can makes decisions or laws based on their own “interpretation” of the constitution or outside the constitution, there ceases to be a republic, and it instead replaced by an oligarchy.
The scripture is very hard on divorce. God understands the destructive power it has. When you take the image of Christ and the church and destroy it, devastation will occur. And in his love for us, God is hard on…
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer…
