Generational Sin and Apathy for the Afflicted
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Move #1 Injustice needs to be confronted in our lives
Move #1 Injustice needs to be confronted in our lives
Confession
Thanksgiving table
Blind spots
Move #2 Injustice needs to be confronted in our motivations
Move #2 Injustice needs to be confronted in our motivations
We need to move deeper
New York’s Mt Sinai hospital Rachel Yehuda
Environment
Thanksgiving table
Scripts
1. What does it risk if they fail to hear from me?
-We are not alone as are confronted with injustice in our motivations.
-Wisdom is a person and he is calling us to deeper dependence on him so we can experience real breakthrough.
2. What am I asking them to do?
-Confront our motivations by seeing how our faith communities and families shape us.
we turn, then we get wisdom (1:23) wisdom is not about information, it’s relational.
3. Why won’t they do it.
-Paul- forgetting what lies behind
-this is psychology
-I don’t need this
-this is scary
4. Next steps
-consider a new practice this year, adopting a refugee family for the purpose of generosity and new relationships.
Move #3 Dealing with our motivations drives us toward dependence on Dad
Move #3 Dealing with our motivations drives us toward dependence on Dad
The biblical writers weren’t just calling the Israelites to confession and repentance but to deeper dependence on God.
Stealing is an extreme example but it requires little dependence on God.
Move #4 Here are some examples
Move #4 Here are some examples
identifying with others. seeing how our stories overlap.
this happens through relationship.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana
19 Thus are the ways of all who are greedy for gain—
it will take the life of its possessors.
20 Wisdom calls out in the streets,
in the squares she raises her voice.
21 On a busy corner she cries out,
at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings:
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love simplicity?
And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing,
and fools hate knowledge?
23 May you turn to my argument!
Behold, I shall pour out my spirit upon you;
I will make my words known to you.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
13 “ ‘I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst.
15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. 18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. 19 And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.