1. Jesus’ Seminary in the Slums Among the Marginalized
Viv Grigg

2. The Cross is our Foolishness
Jesus is Our Wisdom
(1 Cor 1:30)
The Cross is our Foolishness

3. Ministerial Training – Jesus Our Wisdom
1 Cor 1:19-30
Jesus style
Jesus content
Jesus location
1 Cor 2:4,10 Wisdom demonstrated in Spirit’s power
In conflict with Greek Socratic/Aristotolean academe

4. Jesus’ Location – Essential Basis for Theology
Incarnation among the poor
Wisdom amidst poverty
Political good news (Luke 4:18-31)
Economic good news (Zacheus)
Social good news (Woman at well)
Spiritual (?) good news
Theological credibility has to do with location and Spirit’s power among the poor

5. Syllabus Construction
1. Urban Spirituality
40 days of fasting
Healing and Delivering
Beatitudes
2. Preaching and Team Building (Churchplanting)
Modelled story telling, proverbs, oral methods
Was he familiar with Plato, Socrates? – he lived in the Decapolis (10 Greek cities), perhaps helped build Sapporis

6. 3. Urban Realities: Dealing with the Complexities of Social Movements
He invited them in from diversity, and dialogued inside his team
He recruited a liberationist – Simon the Zealot
Matthew –one of the right wing oppressors
Nicodemus – big house, hangs out with worst liberals, even sits with rulers and feasts

7. 4. Marginalised 5.Advocacy
Course on Rescuing Prostitutes, Drug Addicts, Drunkards
5.Advocacy
Dealing with Oppression, Injustice – Course on Advocacy, Land rights, Housing.
The foundations of a healthy capitalist society is easy access to legalized home ownership

8. 6. Community Economics 7. Entrepreneurial Leadership
He started with Businessmen
¼ of his conversations were about economics
Zacheus, come down, ½ my goods
We start with “called” religious – need to revamp their thinking

9. 9. Ownership Own home Own home Provide Family
Kingdom Economic Principles
Principle
Genesis/ Jubilee
Gospels & Acts
Epistles
1. Creativity
God the creator
Spirit sets free
2. Cooperative Economics
Let us make
Sharing
Provide for others
3. Productivity
Good outcomes
Fruit of Preaching
4. Work
He makes He structures
Labour in the gospel
Work with hands(1 Thes 4:11)
5. Rest
God rests
Jubilee come
Eternal Rest
6 Redistribut’n for Equality
Jubilee –return of land Tithing
No needy one
Weekly Giving
Global redist’n (2 Cor 8,9)
Simplicity
7. Stewardship Savings & Debt
Jubilee cancels debts
Debts cancelled
Good managers
Owe no man
Manage house
8. Celebration
It was good
Worship daily
Laughing givers
9. Ownership Own home Own home Provide Family

10. 8. Primary Paradigm: Movement Leadership
Mark 3:14: Chose 12 to be with him, and to be sent out to preach
Training of apostles
Anointing, mobility
Signs and Wonders, Conflict
John 12:24-26 Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone, but if it dies it bears much fruit

11. Spirituality in the Midst of Movement Leadership

12. Break the Bondage of 1800 Years of Academic Greek Catholicism
Aristotolean and Socratic approaches to theology need engagement
even the apostle Paul refused this approach
The call is to follow a Jesus-style of theological, ministry and spiritual formation within/breaking the structures of 21stC academe
But to accommodate the academe, there is
a consistent training in theology of research in each internship leading to a final project/thesis.
A course on exegetical methods and the Synoptics
A course on Global Theologies

13. Packaging: 2 Years, 6 semesters
42 units, $17,724 this year

14. Year 1 Semester 1

15. Year 1: Spring & Summer Semester

16. Year 2: Semesters 4,5,6

17. A 3 year option: 2 courses/semester
10-12 hours/course/week = hrs/week + work & ministry = hours = Standard 55 hr. ministry work week