3. Emperor Julian

4. “Atheism (Christianity) has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and through their care for the burial of the dead.
Emperor Julian

5. It is a scandal that there is not a single Jew who is a beggar and that the godless Galileans care not only for their own poor but for ours as well; while those who belong to us look in vain for the help we should render them.”
Emperor Julian

6. The Gospel of Matthew

8. to the very end of the age.
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely
I am with you always,
to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:18-20

9. to the very end of the age.
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely
I am with you always,
to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:18-20

10. The Presence of God
“with us”

12. 7

13. The Lord’s Supper, Eucharist
1st Discipline:
Communion
The Lord’s Supper, Eucharist

14. Proclaiming the Gospel
2nd Discipline:
Proclaiming the Gospel

15. Reconciliation (peacemaking)
3rd Discipline:
Reconciliation (peacemaking)

16. 4th Discipline:
Being with Children

17. Matthew 18:1-9

18. Being with the Least, the Last & the Lost
5th Discipline:
Being with the Least, the Last & the Lost

19. Matthew 25:31-46
Pg. 695

20. Matthew 25:34-46

21. Foreigners, Immigrants
Hungry
Thirsty
Foreigners, Immigrants
Naked, Poor
Sick
Prisoners

22. Matthew 25:44-46
Pg. 695

23. Luke 16:19-21
Pg. 730

24. NOW WHAT?

25. Robert Lupton Toxic Charity
“...programs create dependency. They do not address the deeply unjust systems that have created the problem. Instead, all too often, they provide means for the affluent to be distracted from the real work among the poor, assuaging their guild while accomplishing little.”
Robert Lupton Toxic Charity

26. David Fitch Faithful Presence
“In terms of money, the larger the amount of money that flows to the poor apart from relationship, the more likely the givers are supporting systems that caused the injustice in the first place.”
David Fitch Faithful Presence

27. Poverty is not primarily about money.
It is about having no idea what do to and /or no one with home to do it. The former I called imagination and the latter I called community.  

28. To the extent that our neighborhood had imagination and community, we were not poor. But without imagination and community, no money could help us… The role of the local church is to be a community of imagination {for the Kingdom}.
Sam Wells

29. 3 Tables of Discipleship/Evangelism
Creating Space…
Jesus’ Table among God’s family.
Your Table Who can you invite?
Their Table Where is the Kingdom absent?
BLUEPRINT:
3 Tables of Discipleship/Evangelism