When we look at the human elements of spiritual growth across our lifespan, we observe phases of development mentally, educationally, morally. Many attempts have been made to identify the growth of values and their impact economically, environmentally, academically, nationally. We briefly review six of these. What is the work of the Holy Spirit in generating these values in individuals and cultures?
Progressions from Spiritual Revival to Societal Transformation. This is developed from the book The Spirit of Christ and the Postmodern City by Viv Grigg. A set of course resources is available at www.http://www.urbanleaders.org/620Leadership/
In the modern era leadership is often understood in secular terms, such as political or corporate leadership. This presentation considers the relevance of religion and spirituality to leadership and good governance. Themes include spiritual growth, life after death, and the existence of a spiritual world.
Spiritual Leadership - What spiritism teaches us about being a leaderGlaucio Pessoa, P.E.
This is a work which has been presented at the 3rd Spiritist Conference of Atlanta in 2010. The paper goes into detail of how the spiritism help us better understand the role of the leader as a spiritual being.
Progressions from Spiritual Revival to Societal Transformation. This is developed from the book The Spirit of Christ and the Postmodern City by Viv Grigg. A set of course resources is available at www.http://www.urbanleaders.org/620Leadership/
In the modern era leadership is often understood in secular terms, such as political or corporate leadership. This presentation considers the relevance of religion and spirituality to leadership and good governance. Themes include spiritual growth, life after death, and the existence of a spiritual world.
Spiritual Leadership - What spiritism teaches us about being a leaderGlaucio Pessoa, P.E.
This is a work which has been presented at the 3rd Spiritist Conference of Atlanta in 2010. The paper goes into detail of how the spiritism help us better understand the role of the leader as a spiritual being.
This presentation from GlobalCAST Resources highlights some principles that can guide missions mobilization. We explore mobilization that does not resort to tactics like manipulation. Here we seek to apply community development principles to missions mobilization and ask the question what does mobilization out of the tree of life look like?
Towards a Post-Religious and Post-Secular Messianic Jewish Understanding of "Authority, Freedom, and Tradition in the life of Jewish Disciples of Yeshua" with Reference to Contemporary Israeli Traditionism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VA3sZ91p9M
What’s New about the New Perspective on Paul?
talk given at the Moishe Rosen Centre, Tel Aviv, May 2014
powerpoint at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3lijiwj3dxuacws/npp%20tel%20aviv%20130514c.pptx
# new perspective paul mmjt article slides
This is part of the apologetics that we did in our church.
Put up an overview of cult in the world. Includes info about the definition, how cults operate, their targets, examples and what we need to do.
This presentation gives an insight into various religious cults that exist in the world & concludes showing how Christians(born-again children of God) can resist them.
Contents:
- RELIGION
- GREEK RELIGION & MYTHOLOGY
- FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION
- INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION
- TYPES OF RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS
- TYPES OF RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
Part one in a small group series, Love God with All Your Mind. What is the state of the mind in the church today? According to Jesus, the greatest commandment in the Old Testament is: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37-38). How are we to fulfill this commandment, especially the part about loving God with all our mind? Jesus implied that what we think and what we believe is extremely important to God, and being a thinking Christian is a major part of our loving God. Using Dr. J.P. Moreland's book, Love Your God With All Your Mind, this class will explore how we can use our minds to love and glorify God.
This presentation from GlobalCAST Resources highlights some principles that can guide missions mobilization. We explore mobilization that does not resort to tactics like manipulation. Here we seek to apply community development principles to missions mobilization and ask the question what does mobilization out of the tree of life look like?
Towards a Post-Religious and Post-Secular Messianic Jewish Understanding of "Authority, Freedom, and Tradition in the life of Jewish Disciples of Yeshua" with Reference to Contemporary Israeli Traditionism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VA3sZ91p9M
What’s New about the New Perspective on Paul?
talk given at the Moishe Rosen Centre, Tel Aviv, May 2014
powerpoint at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3lijiwj3dxuacws/npp%20tel%20aviv%20130514c.pptx
# new perspective paul mmjt article slides
This is part of the apologetics that we did in our church.
Put up an overview of cult in the world. Includes info about the definition, how cults operate, their targets, examples and what we need to do.
This presentation gives an insight into various religious cults that exist in the world & concludes showing how Christians(born-again children of God) can resist them.
Contents:
- RELIGION
- GREEK RELIGION & MYTHOLOGY
- FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION
- INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION
- TYPES OF RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS
- TYPES OF RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
Part one in a small group series, Love God with All Your Mind. What is the state of the mind in the church today? According to Jesus, the greatest commandment in the Old Testament is: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37-38). How are we to fulfill this commandment, especially the part about loving God with all our mind? Jesus implied that what we think and what we believe is extremely important to God, and being a thinking Christian is a major part of our loving God. Using Dr. J.P. Moreland's book, Love Your God With All Your Mind, this class will explore how we can use our minds to love and glorify God.
This is a fundamental and rigorous psychological Analysis of Christian Religion (not of God). If you are easily hurt in your religious feelings, it means: You simply feel ashamed, embarrassed, and guilty about how deep you have fallen into the archaic religious trap!
The main objective of this website is to offer a new way of thinking about such matters based on science and clear reasoning; a way of thinking that reveals meaning and purpose for our lives; a way that leads to natural personal fulfillment and happiness
Post-postmodernism oens the possiblity of reformation f spiritulity to replace the postmodern losses with the new centre of authority in the cosmi Christ, of truth in the living expression of God, of meaning in the Cosmic coming Kingdom of God, loss of integration with nature in relationship to the personhood of nature
The Holy Spirit is the structurer of the universe, so walking in spirituality involves walking with him in structuring society or in defending those treated unjustly. What does Justice Spirituality look like? What are its principles?
The voice of God, the wind of the Spirit that carreis that voice calls us and we become the vehicle of that voice. What spiritual disciples foster this correlation of he divine with the strucrures of the academy?
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.
Multiple Dimensions of Urban Research for Transforming Cities. From anthropology to geography to ethnicity. From community level to macro to global levels of research. What are the foci of urban missiological research? What are the appropriate approaches? This is part of the course TUL540 Urban Social Analysis that is part of the MA in Transformational Urban Leadership (www.matul.org)
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
Seven steps for expanding a small business in the slums. What do you do when you have no capital? How do you move sideways into new business opportunities? How do you expand staff?
3. 7GodlyVirtues
The Three Pauline Virtues
The Four Classical Greek Virtues
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Faith
Hope
Love
Temperance
Understanding
Wisdom
Prudence
What basic
elements make up
a good person?
Each virtue can be
analyzed in terms
of feelings,
behaviors and
skills
5. SevenCardinal
Sins
SevenVirtues
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(1) vainglory, or pride, (2)
greed, or covetousness, (3)
lust, or inordinate or illicit
sexual desire, (4) envy, (5)
gluttony, which is usually
understood to include
drunkenness, (6) wrath, or
anger, and (7) sloth.
Each of these can be
overcome with the seven
corresponding virtues of (1)
humility, (2) charity, (3)
chastity, (4) gratitude, (5)
temperance, (6) patience,
and (7) diligence.
Seven deadly sins, also called seven capital sins or
seven cardinal sins, in Roman Catholic theology, the
seven vices that spur other sins and further immoral
behaviour. First enumerated by Pope Gregory I (the
Great) in the 6th century and elaborated in the 13th
century by St. Thomas Aquinas,
7. Expanding the List ofVirtues
Each culture defines its own ideal virtues
Each religion defines its own ideal virtues
But there are universal virtues: Love, Justice, Respect,
Truth…
The Goal of Virtues
• Aristotle: Happiness.
• Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Baruch Spinoza: Self-
preservation determines virtues.
• Immanuel Kant: internal knowledge of virtue is
connected to an obligation to external societal norms...
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8. Virtues andValues
Are they the same?
• Virtues and values are ideals expressed as priorities
• A Subset: Virtues are narrower in scope than Values.
They have specific ends in mind.
• Values are aspirational. Our reality may not reflect our
values.
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9. Catholic vs Evangelical
Foundations to Spirituality
Based on the idea of the Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, who
brings discernment, Catholic Spirituality places heavy emphasis on academic
education as the foundation of spirituality and values are a significant theme
• With a historic antipathy to outbreaks of revival there has been a
historic avoidance of the “enthusiasms” of the Spirit in many Catholic
circles
• Education builds values imposed from the outside, external norms
imposed by society through education.
• (But there are also Catholic orders of the Holy Spirit who seek
various patterns of mysticism).
Evangelicalism
• Is founded on a multiplying web of revivals around the globe,
growing out of Franciscan, then Pietist revivals
• The presence of the Spirit is core to our understanding of spiritual
growth or Sanctification.
• Spirituality is thus an outworking of his overwhelming presence.
• That presence brings inner values change
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11. Kohlberg and Moral
Development
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• An educational theorist
• He built off Piaget’s educational theories.
• Values emerge through a developmental process
• Just as cognitive skills develop so does our ability to
choose right from wrong.
13. Stages of Personal Spiritual (Mystical)
Development
1. Over 100 years what are the developmental stages of life?
2. What are the stages of spiritual growth?
3. How do these map onto each other? Do they?
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15. Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs
There is no research basis for one level
leading to the next.
Premise: Before a person can engage in
higher values such as justice they must
meet their basic needs such as food and
shelter.
Rokeach
Developed the idea ofValue systems
Terminal values are ends in themselves
Ten Economic Values
• .
• .
• .
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16. TheTonna-Hall Inventory
An Anglican Priest-psychologist and a Catholic Monsignor
built on these theories to develop the Tonna-Hall inventory
of 132 value pairs.
• They then sought to arrange them according to phases of life
• They sought to analyse the turning points or paradigm shifts
between phases
• They applied them to group formation of collective values in
organizations or movements.
• They did a lot of research along the way, but the foundations of
these theories is shaky as they pulled from multiple sources, and
the complexity of trying to integrate them into a grand theory is
likely beyond human capacities.
• But it is of interest to reflect on these dynamics and discern ones
values.
• Then to consider how does the Holy Spirit form such values within
us and our people.
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17. Tonna-Hall
Inventory and
Your Inner Urban
Journey
Six Perspectives From Psychology,
Education and Spiritual Growth
Theory as to the Various Phases of
Life.
Based on this Tonna and Hall
identified 132 universal value pairs
and how these develop at each of
these six stages
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Next: How do our values
impact the Urban Context at
various life stages?
21. Not just inner moral
values
Not just social moral
values
How do these relate
to our urban context?
If the Kingdom is both the redemption of our humanness
and of our relationship to the land, what values are
distinctly earthy in our Christianity?
Do these exist in:
• Islam?
• Hinduism?
• Pentecostalism?
• Presbyterianism?
• Liberation Theology?
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Environmental Spirituality?
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Or How Does the Urban
Context Impact these Life
Stages and Values?
Our anthropological
spirituality is impacted by
our sociological realities
23. ??? Comparison of EconomicValues and SpiritualValues
Values are an ethereal idea, formed in philosophy,
education, psychology….
If the Kingdom is both the redemption of our Humanness
and of our relationship to the Land, what values are
distinctly earthy in our Christianity?
Spiritual Values Ten Economic Values
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24. Expansion ofValues
from individual to community to movement to nations
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20YY 20YY 20YY 20YY 20YY
Development ofValues overTime
• In early years master the scriptures (inner values,
spiritiual discpleship)
• In our young adult years, master economic
realities (ten economic principles, economic
discipleship)
• In middle years master the disciplines of a
movement (social values)
• In later years master the disciplines of
interconnectivity (discipling nations)
• In final years master philosophies (power
conflict)