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Showing posts with label social justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social justice. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2008
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Teachings To Tune In To
As I prepared to teach my section on social gospel, my friend Doug recommended that I listen to Tim Keller's thoughts on justice that he heard from a teaching Tim did at the Reform and Resurge conference in 2006. I first listened to his thoughts on justice and was very encouraged and slightly blown away with his exploration of scriptures take on justice. And so I went and listened to his Church in Culture teaching too. Apparently Church in Culture was the first teaching and richly informs his teaching on justice.
He has some very interesting thoughts on why Christians ought to live in cities and on why justice is important to have imbedded within all we do as Christ followers.
Resurgence is kindly making these teachings available for free, so I thought I'd link them here.
Being the Church in our Culture
Preaching the Gospel
Doing Justice
He has some very interesting thoughts on why Christians ought to live in cities and on why justice is important to have imbedded within all we do as Christ followers.
Resurgence is kindly making these teachings available for free, so I thought I'd link them here.
Being the Church in our Culture
Preaching the Gospel
Doing Justice
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Social Action
So, my good friend, Doug has asked me to partner with him in facilitating a conversation among friends next weekend. It sounds like fun. We'll be covering general topics like ecclesiology, community, culture and social action (the topic laid on my shoulders). The topics are general enough to be mined for quite some time. So the set up is this: 20 minute presentation followed by 45-50 minutes of question driven discussion.
My responsibility is to talk about social action in 20 minutes, packing enough fodder for an in-depth discussion.
As I've been praying and thinking over this, a three step process has come to my mind as a way to understand a persons or community's movement toward social action.
From ignorance to awareness.
From awareness to compassion.
From compassion to action.
As I discussed this with Doug, he thought that covering each step would be too much for a 20 minute session, so for the time being we're going to explore what it looks like to bring a person/community from ignorance to awareness. Here's where I'd like some feedback.
My responsibility is to talk about social action in 20 minutes, packing enough fodder for an in-depth discussion.
As I've been praying and thinking over this, a three step process has come to my mind as a way to understand a persons or community's movement toward social action.
From ignorance to awareness.
From awareness to compassion.
From compassion to action.
As I discussed this with Doug, he thought that covering each step would be too much for a 20 minute session, so for the time being we're going to explore what it looks like to bring a person/community from ignorance to awareness. Here's where I'd like some feedback.
- What do you think keeps individuals/communities from being aware of the needs of those around them?
- What do you think are some steps that faith communities can take to raise awareness?
- How do communities choose which issues to shed light upon?
- What do you think are the most pressing issues?
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