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Detachment, decluttering, simplicity, renunciation are ancient Christian spiritual traditions. This presentation lays out a modern values system for such simple lifestyle choices.
Set Your Mind on Things Above - Not on Earthly ThingsMargaret Lepke
How heavenly-minded are you in your everyday life? Where is your focus? What gives you joy? Where are you doing your banking? What are you passionate about? This presentation will make you think and take stock of your life. Keep looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of faith!
The practicalities of outworking an incarnational lifestyle following Jesus among the urban poor are discussed from the original Lifestyle and Values document of Servants to Asia's Urban Poor.
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Col 3:1-2 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
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Col 3:1-2 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
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Our Responsibility to God’s WILL
His priority must be our priority!
Let’s quickly examine the Ant for some Wisdom!
Their Queen our King
Their Colony or community our Church
They are super-organisms we are the body of Christ
They live to reproduce, we do the same, though we both can’t
It’s not about them, it’s not about us.
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The two pathways for coping with the rage of being oppressed: increasing bitterness and violence or peacemaking and reconciliation? The way of Alinksy or the way of Assissi!! How does identifying rage then enable it to be turned into productive engagement in changing oppression?
Central to the MATUL degree is the reality that the church is often the center of much of the development or community organization and transformation.
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A overview on the prophetic books in the Bible as they engage with issues of stratification, poverty, wealth and injustice. A related video may be found at https://vimeo.com/236668836
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A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
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The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
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The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
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3. Greed = Idolatory (Col 3:5)
• We are likely to be excluded from
the Kingdom
Nothing Sinful Here
4. But
• The cares of the world
• The delight in riches
• The desire for other things
• Creeeeeep in
– And take away the word, the fire, the
source of life, the hammer that
breaks the rock in pieces
5. Simplicity
A message for those who have
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Sacrificial, Simple Lifestyles
8. • Surrounded by so great a clowd of
witnesses
• Travelled with a band of brothers these
30 years
– Assissi
– Pr John Baptist Lukwago
– Paul, Sold a Forest
– David, Left a Career
– Jim, eats only two meals a
day and gives the other to
the poor
– Now hundreds living among
the poor….
9. The Call To The Rich For Radical Repentance
1. Analysis Of Poverty => Analysis Of Riches
2. Jesus Loved The Rich
3. Parable Of the Rich Fool (12:13-21)
4. Give Up Unconditionally Your Attachment
To Riches (Luke 12:33, 14:33)
5. You Cannot Serve God And Money (16:13-
15)
6. The Rich Man And Lazarus (16:19-31)
7. Gaining The World, Losing Your Soul (9:25)
11. 2. Non-Destitute Poverty
The Master not only chose
poverty in birth, in life and
death, he also calls his servants
to such a lifestyle. We
recognize our basic needs for
food and clothing (I Timothy
6:6-8, Matthew 6:25-33), which
may include tools of our trade,
children’s toys.
12. 2. Non-Destitute Poverty (cont.)
We recognize the just need, inferred
from the Scriptures for each family
to own its own home, although
some, like the Master, may choose a
mobile, apostolic life with nowhere
to lay one’s head (Luke 9:58). In
putting our treasure in heaven, we
covet the unsearchable riches of
Christ.
13. 2. Non-destitute Poverty (cont.)
•
We desire to possess nothing that
cannot be shared with those around
us. Regarding what we have, we hold it
not as our own but rather as lent to us
for a season. We will seek to exclude
from both our personal and communal
lives the cares of the world, the delight
in riches and the desire for other
things (Matthew 4:19).
14. We will avoid the abundance
of communal properties or
wealth. Buildings,
administration and ministry
shall be developed in the
simplest manner consistent
with good health and with
efficient, well-pleasing work.
2. Non-destitute Poverty (cont.)
15. 3. Inner Simplicity
Renouncing possessions is an
outworking of an inner
simplifying of our lives which
lead to the openness,
gentleness, spontaneity, and
serenity that marked the
Master.
In renouncing possessions we
seek to simplify our external
lives in order to simplify more
clearly our inner lives and
focus on knowing our Lord.
16. Along with outward poverty, we
desire an inner humility; along
with servant works, we seek the
spirit of a true servant.
In caring little for this world where
we are strangers and pilgrims,
we set our hearts on that
spiritual home where our
treasure is being saved up, and
on that glory which we shall
share with our Lord, provided we
suffer with him.
3. Inner Simplicity (cont)
17. We encourage middle-class
Christians to such simplicity of
lifestyle. For some it means
earning less, and using their time
for the kingdom.
For others it means to earn much,
consume little, hoard nothing, give
generously and celebrate living.
Such lifestyles are infinitely varied.
We refuse to judge others in such
areas.
3. Inner Simplicity (Cont)
18. Principle of Simplicity
I Tim 6:6-10
A Lifestyle of Simplicity
Earn much
Consume Little
Hoard Nothing
Give Generously
Celebrate Life
19. Its junk or Jesus
Every possession binds
Step 1: Forsake, radical action
•List your possessions
•Give
•Or sell and give to the poor
–PKMoses in Hyderabad
–Chea Vantha, Phnom Phen
–John Baptist Lukwago, Kampala
•Share
Step 2: Live Simply
Budget
Manage
Use for Kingdom
Work as a community
Editor's Notes
We are all a bunch of greedy idolators and likely to be excluded from the Kingdom of God.
Col 3:5 Greed which is as the sin of idolatory.