Welcome to Manna and Mercy MANNA AND MERCY
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Welcome to Manna and Mercy MANNA AND MERCY 1
Values to hold us … Ø Respect everyone’s integrity Ø Listen without interrupting Ø Celebrate our diversity Ø TASK in order to grow – not argue to win Ø Humility + Honesty = Growth Ø Give ourselves to the process Ø Receive assertions as questions Ø Breathe and smile … MANNA AND MERCY 2
Seeing with new eyes … The Mercator Projection of the earth, in use since 1569, greatly exaggerates the size of countries in the Northern Hemisphere. The Peters Projection represents all countries according to their relative area. MANNA AND MERCY 3
Peters’ Projection MANNA AND MERCY 4
The Jesus story … the Christ event is the interpretive lens through which we are to 1 read Scripture. MANNA AND MERCY 5
The four most important questions to ask of any Scripture What does the text say about: • God? 2 • Humanity? • Creation? • Their relationship? MANNA AND MERCY 6
Context gives meaning Date Author Audience Language Social Setting MANNA AND MERCY 3 7
Genesis 1 A sermon from the banks of Babylon to get the choir to sing the Lord’s Song. MANNA AND MERCY 8
Genesis 3 is a TRUE parable “Now, I don’t know if it happened this way or not, but I know this story is true. ” The TREE is the gift of free choice. The air love breathes is freedom. SNAKES don’t talk, but that does not mean we do not hear them speak! The SNAKE represents anything and everything in the world that raises questions about where our salvation is found. MANNA AND MERCY 9
The Ancient Pictorial View of the Universe: (1) The waters above and below the earth. (2 – 4) Chambers of hail, rain and snow. (5) The firmament with its “sluices”. (6) The surface of the earth. (7) The navel of the earth – “fountain of the Great Deep”. (8) The mountain-pillars supporting the firmament. (9) Secret waters (rivers, lakes, seas) on which the earth floats. (10) Sheol, the realm of Death (the “Pit”). MANNA AND MERCY 10
The Babylonian Story Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Creation in an act of violence. Order is established by means of superior force. Evil is prior to good – the creation is fallen from the outset and therefore cannot be redeemed to any “former good”. Violence is part of God’s nature. Evil/violence is the very nature of reality. Humanity is created in violence – therefore we are natural born killers. Humanity exist to serve as slaves to the king who represents the gods on earth. Resistance to slavery is the highest treason. Unquestioning obedience is the highest virtue. MANNA AND MERCY 11
The Biblical Creation Story Ø Ø Ø MANNA AND MERCY A good and loving God creates a good and loving creation. Neither evil nor violence are an inherent part of creation, rather evil is a problem that requires redemption. A basically good reality is corrupted by human sin and the “serpent mystery”. What VIOLENCE was for the Babylonian story – LOVE is for the Biblical story. Humanity is created in love, by love and for love – therefore we are natural born lovers. 12
A Biblical Creation Theory Example No one is born hating another person because of the colour of their skin, or their background, or their religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Nelson Mandela MANNA AND MERCY 13
Genesis 1 – 11: Pre-history for all history Genesis 1 – 3: Sermon + Parable Not How: But Why? And Who? 4 God = Loving Creator Humanity is created in God’s image Created by God: in Love by Love for Love … yet with the freedom not to Love. MANNA AND MERCY 14
I am born in love, by love and for love MANNA AND MERCY 15
Justice = Love Distributed Society is created: in Justice by Justice for Justice … yet with the freedom not to be Just. MANNA AND MERCY 16
Our free choice to Babylonian Creation Natural Born Killers TRUST IN … Force OR Biblical Creation Natural Born Lovers MANNA AND MERCY Love 17
The Biblical Story of Mending … Fall Redemption is the promised possibility with God Ø People can change Ø Structures can change Ø The way things are needn’t be the way things remain … MANNA AND MERCY 18
Genesis 11: Ends in Death! Genesis 12: New Beginning! Ø Ø Ø Abraham/Sarah Hagar/Ishmael Isaac/Rebekah Jacob/Rachel/Leah Joseph 6 Blessed to be a Blessing MANNA AND MERCY 5 Called into Holy Partnership “Without God we cannot. Without us God will not. ” Augustine 19
Freedom even not to Love Fall 7 ME Personal Sin SOCIAL Structural Sin MANNA AND MERCY 20
Reading Scripture with a Wide Angle & Zoom Lens There is no such thing as Private Salvation! 8 MANNA AND MERCY Salvation – like the sin we are saved from – is both personal and political! 21
God has BIG ears! Joseph Egypt God hears! God calls! God sends … FEARFUL FORGETFUL Moses … a redeemed murderer MANNA AND MERCY 22
Moses Abundance Shalom Friendship Gift of Freedom Generously shared Peace by justice God Others Self Creation Work to earn a giving! 40 Eph. 4: 28 Wilderness School Today’s Lesson: Living as free people Promised Land Egypt MANNA AND MERCY 23
Law is a gift to protect Covenant Relationship We obey the 10 commandments, not to make God love us, but because God already loves us. MANNA AND MERCY 9 24
SABBATH Day Year Jubilee CONTRAST COMMUNITY WORSHIP DAILY SABBATH PRINCIPLES Exodus 20: REST! Ø Enjoy being enjoyed! Deuteronomy 5: REMEMBER! Ø Work for the day when all people are free! MANNA AND MERCY SACRIFICE POOR 25
God enjoys you! Enjoy being enjoyed! MANNA AND MERCY 26
Our Faith Journey Principle. . . Personal … Policy … Practice … Politics … Ø There will, however, be no one in need among you … Deut. 15: 4 Ø When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest … Lev. 19: 9 10 Concerned with the shape and shaping of any human community. MANNA AND MERCY 27
Not everything that is Biblical is Christ-like Unlimited Vengeance Limited Forgiveness Unlimited Forgiveness 11 MANNA AND MERCY Gen. 4: 23 -24 Lamech Deut. 19: 21 Eye for Eye Matt. 5: 43 Hate and Love Matt. 18: 22 Forgive 70 x 7 g in d n a t s r e d n U on p u g in d n a t s r e d n U EXAMPLES Adultery: Lev. 20: 10; John 8: 4 Violence: Samson’s Jawbone; Jesus’ Cross 28
Jesus is God’s answer to a bad reputation! Alan Walker MANNA AND MERCY 29
For Love to stop loving … is for Love to stop being! For God to stop loving … is for God to stop being! Because God is Love! MANNA AND MERCY 30
ue l Samaria Sam SAUL DAVID SOLOMON ISRAEL JUDAH “Sin divides and if not stopped, it destroys all that it divides. ” “Love unites and by uniting, it transforms all it unites. ” B Gaybba MANNA AND MERCY 31
God is not into Religion God is into Relationship PROPHETS Ø God’s spokespeople Ø See with eschatological eyes Ø Not fortune tellers Ø Place plumb-lines for the nation Ø Present a clear choice Ø Surrounded by conflict MANNA AND MERCY 12 32
Prophetic Truth Ø Ø Ø The wealthiest 20% of the world’s population use 80% of the world’s income! The poorest 20% of the world’s population use 2% of the world’s income! This is unsustainable! In South Africa this unsustainable equation is at one of the highest levels of tension in the world! This is South Africa’s biggest threat to peace in our land! United Nations Human Development Report MANNA AND MERCY 33
ISRAEL JUDAH Samaritans Assyrian Empire (North) 722 Babylonian Empire 587/6 Persian Empire 539/8 CYRUS Long Walk to Freedom MANNA AND MERCY 34
Reconstruction Development Programme n o ti Na We’re the best … exclude everyone! Radical Deut. 23: 1 -3 & Gen. 19: 30 BOAS Love Story NINEVEH m s i al RUTH JONAH Jonah + Nineveh = Satire MANNA AND MERCY Ruth (Moabite) Boaz (Jew) love unites love transforms REMEMBER: Our attitude towards others not only says something about them, but also about God! 35
Moses Israel Kings Egypt Big Deal Prophets 722 Assyria Prophets Priests 539/8 Persian 587/6 Babylon Prophetic Story & Home Satire Nationalism Prophets Revolt 333 Greek 167 Maccabean ± 100 years independence 63 Rome MANNA AND MERCY … SURPRISE! 36
Jesus’ Social Context King Military Religion Business Artisans Peasants Sellouts Merchants Anawim Outcasts Rome MANNA AND MERCY 37
Mary is the most radical of Prophets! She is so certain about God’s promised future that she sings about it in the PAST tense! According to God’s promised future, one day all people will … … … … MANNA AND MERCY 38
John the Baptiser: The life and death of a faithful disciple! Ø Isaiah 40: 3 -5 Ø Luke 3: 1 -6 Ø Luke 3: 7 -20 Ø Luke 7: 18 -35 Ø Mark 6: 14 -29 Ø Matt. 14: 1 -2 John studies scripture John’s mission John’s ministry John doing time in prison John killed by compromising pleasers John’s witness is resurrected by Jesus and turn around … Repent = Stop ≠ Repentance is more than remorse! MANNA AND MERCY 39
Before God wants us to be happy, God wants us to be faithful. Real Joy MANNA AND MERCY 13 40
The temptation in all temptations is to get us to doubt our deepest identity! WILDERNESS TEMPTATIONS TODAY Ø Survival and Security Ø Affection and Approval Ø Power and Control } } Money We keep thinking that our happiness will be fulfilled in fulfilling one of these or all of them. This is both childish and an illusion. T. Keating MANNA AND MERCY 41
We believe not to get into heaven, but to have life in all its fullness Life that death cannot take away A life of faith does not earn Eternal Life 14 IT IS ETERNAL LIFE! MANNA AND MERCY 42
What do you need most from Jesus? Invited Included Affirmed Loved Touched Liberated Held Embraced Healed Cleansed Fed Given Dignity Forgiven Reborn Called Made Whole Freed Given Hope Received Honoured MANNA AND MERCY 43
Mercy for all … Jesus resisted dividing the world into good people and evil people. Ø The line that separates good from evil does not run between people but rather it runs through people! Ø Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago At best … we all fail. We are all beyond Innocence! EPHESIANS 1 & 2 I have messed up I don’t deserve to be fixed up But God has raised me up MANNA AND MERCY We fall into grace 15 44
What does it mean to say “YES” to Jesus? To say YES to Jesus means allowing Jesus to DETERMINE our understanding of God! 16 This means … Ø God has created YOU special and sacred … Ø God loves YOU, yes YOU, and God enjoys YOU … Ø God loves to forgive YOU and longs for YOU to know that YOU are forgiven … Ø God calls YOU into holy partnership to help God heal this broken world … Anyone want to say AMEN? and … MANNA AND MERCY 45
What does it mean to say “YES” to Jesus? To say YES to Jesus means allowing Jesus to DETERMINE our understanding of God! 16 This means … Ø God has created EVERYONE special and sacred … Ø God loves EVERYONE and God enjoys EVERYONE … Ø God loves to forgive EVERYONE and longs for EVERYONE to know that they are forgiven … Ø God calls EVERYONE into holy partnership to help God heal this broken world … Anyone want to say AMEN? and … MANNA AND MERCY 46
What does it mean to say “YES” to Jesus? To say YES to Jesus means allowing Jesus to DETERMINE our understanding of God! 16 This means … Ø God has created YOUR ENEMIES special and sacred … Ø God loves YOUR ENEMIES and God enjoys them … Ø God loves to forgive YOUR ENEMIES and longs for YOUR ENEMIES to know that they are forgiven … Ø God calls YOUR ENEMIES into holy partnership to help God heal this broken world … Anyone want to say AMEN? MANNA AND MERCY 47
“Jesus called for followers … not admirers!” S. Kierkegaard Before Jesus wants to be worshiped, he wants to be followed! It is only by following Jesus that we worship him! MANNA AND MERCY 17 48
What makes the Faithful, faithful? It is not that they do not fail, but that they know WHO to turn to when they do fail. Good News! God is eager to forgive us! MANNA AND MERCY FROM NOW ON … Ø Not looked upon it in the same light Ø A new creation in Christ Ø Everything old has passed away Ø Everything has become new Ø All this is from God Ø God does not count our sins Ø Ministers of Reconciliation Ø Christ’s ambassadors Ø God’s righteousness 2 Cor. 5: 16 -21 18 49
We can be so brutally honest about human sin because we are so confident of the love of God towards sinners … Willimon 19 and structures. MANNA AND MERCY 50
Manna for all… WORLD-VIEW 20 Scarcity Fear Hoarding Competition Conflict War BIBLICAL-VIEW Abundance See Love Parker J. Sharing Palmer Co-operation Compassion Shalom When a little is shared it becomes a lot! : e ot N MANNA AND MERCY A little only becomes a lot once it has been shared! 51
Unearthing the VALUES within economic systems … CAPITALISTIC ECONOMY Ø Core value = Freedom Ø Sacrifice equality Ø Inequality sabotages the core value of freedom! CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMY Ø Core value = Equality Ø Sacrifice freedom Ø No freedom sabotages the core value of equality! Christ calls us to freely sacrifice for the sake of equality! MANNA AND MERCY 21 52
Holy Communion Do this in memory of me! This is my body 7 -3 L MANNA AND MERCY 2: E 2 K U 8 Do what? Feed each other, making sure there is no-one in need among you! 53
God sent Jesus to love … to love loving more than anything else. Jesus refused to restrict his love … this made people angry enough to kill him. Mark 12: 1 -12 Ø Historical reasons for Jesus’ death Ø Theological explanations 22 AT-ONE-MENT. MANNA AND MERCY 54
CHRIST died … BECAUSE of us! The Cross as a story of our sin … WITH us! The Cross as a story of shared suffering … FOR us! The Cross as a story of God’s saving love … MANNA AND MERCY 55
The Cross is inevitable when love meets sin! “It was not an accidental, marginal type of happening; it grew out of the nature of the facts. It had to happen. For it is a law of life that where love meets sin in the loved one, at the junction of that sin and that love, a cross of pain is set up. It is the nature of love to insinuate itself into the sins and sorrows of the loved one and make them its own. If it does not do that, then it is not love. All love has the doom of bleeding upon it whenever the object of its love goes wrong. ” E. Stanley Jones MANNA AND MERCY To say the Cross was inevitable is NOT to say that it was planned! 56
Resurrection The world really is the way Jesus described it: Love is the greatest power. 23 When love breaks, it doesn’t break down … it breaks OPEN! Ron Morgan MANNA AND MERCY 57
Filled with the very Spirit of Jesus to celebrate and share God’s Manna and Mercy in the world … 24 MANNA AND MERCY Ø Ø Ø Pen teco Fire st As bold and generous servants As a contrast community As a sign of God’s kin-dom on earth! 58
The Pentecost Contrast Community Ø The powerless are given the gift of tongues to speak the truth! Ø The powerful are given the gift of ears to hear the truth! Pen teco Fire st A Pentecostal Community is one where the TRUTH is both spoken and heard! MANNA AND MERCY 59
Agenda for the First Church Synod Apartheid between Jew and Gentile Pen teco Fire st The most defining characteristic of the early Church is that it was an enemy loving community! MANNA AND MERCY 60
All violence is family violence! Jesus said: Pray for those who persecute you. Pen Oh Lord, remember not only the men and teco women of good will, but also those of ill Fire st will. But do not remember all the sufferings they have inflicted on us. Remember rather the fruits we have bought, thanks to this suffering: our comradeship, our loyalty, our humility, our courage, our generosity; the greatness of heart that has grown out of all of this. And when they come to judgement, let all the fruits we have borne, be their forgiveness. Amen. An unknown woman’s prayer found pinned to the dead body of a little girl in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. MANNA AND MERCY 61
The Real World • The revelation of Jesus Christ • John to the seven churches that are in Asia: • Grace to you and peace • from him who is and who was and who is to come • and from the seven spirits who are before his throne • from Jesus Christ: • the faithful witness • the firstborn of the dead, and • the ruler of the kings of the earth. • To him who loves us • and freed us from our sins by his blood, • and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father • to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. MANNA AND MERCY 62
The Real World Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail. So it is to be. Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, ” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Ø I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. ” Ø Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash across his chest. His head … Ø MANNA AND MERCY 63
The Real World His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters. Ø In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force. Ø When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades. Ø Now write what you have seen, what is, and what is to take place after this. As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. ” Ø MANNA AND MERCY 64
God’s dream is to mend Pen the entire universe in teco holy partnership with a Fire st Manna and Mercy people! Ø Can God count on us as holy partners? 25 Ø What are we willing to commit to? In Jesus, God has played the winning move. The “game” is not yet over, but it has already been won! MANNA AND MERCY 65
Remember: Manna and Mercy is not a course, it is a way of life! MANNA AND MERCY 66
The first ACT of the Apostles was to PRAY! Acts 1: 24 Acts 7: 59 Acts 9: 40 Acts 12: 5 Acts 14: 23 Acts 20: 36 Acts 28: 8 MANNA AND MERCY Acts 4: 31 Acts 8: 15 Acts 10: 30 Acts 12: 12 Acts 16: 13 Acts 21: 5 Acts 6: 4 Acts 9: 11 Acts 11: 5 Acts 13: 3 Acts 16: 25 Acts 22: 17 67
Praying OPEN the Scriptures … Obedient Prayer Experiencing Newness MANNA AND MERCY SIX STEPS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Trust Read and re-read Reflect Honest conversation Feel Obey 68
A Christ-Centred Church Believing is one thing! Living out what we believe is another thing! Sometimes there seems to be such a wide gap between what we believe and how we actually live our lives. Almost as if our beliefs and our behaviour are not on speaking terms! This can be equally true for the life of the Church! MANNA AND MERCY 69
Steps towards a Christ-Centred Church Ø Ø Ø Ø List the character traits of Jesus to get our view. Jesus’ character traits are to shape our values. List the needs in our local context. Connect the character traits of Jesus with the most important needs in our local context. These connected and contextualised character traits of Jesus are the values that are to determine our vision. This vision is to determine our venture. Our venture is to embody our values and thereby incarnate the character of Jesus in our community. So the world will experience the Resurrected Christ! MANNA AND MERCY 70
Steps towards a Christ-Centred Church So the world will experience the Resurrected Christ! MANNA AND MERCY 71
Steps towards a Christ-Centred Church So the world will experience the Resurrected Christ! MANNA AND MERCY 72
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