1. The requirements

2. Starting at the end

3. Best Last Line in a Movie??

6. Starting at the end

7. Call to Faith
Identify that place where you feel yourself "hungering and thirsting for justice."

8. How are you being called to humbly
Call to Faith
Identify that place where you feel yourself "hungering and thirsting for justice."
How are you being called to humbly
and mercifully seek restorative justice
in that situation?

9. How are you being called to humbly
Call to Faith
Identify that place where you feel yourself "hungering and thirsting for justice."
How are you being called to humbly
and mercifully seek restorative justice
in that situation?

10. How are you being called to humbly
Call to Faith
Identify that place where you feel yourself "hungering and thirsting for justice."
How are you being called to humbly
and mercifully seek restorative justice
in that situation?

11. The Prophet Micah

12. With what shall I come before the Lord
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?

13. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

14. To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

15. The Beatitudes
Matthew 5

16. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.”
Matthew 5:3-7

17. Walk Humbly “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.”
Matthew 5:3-7

18. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.”
Matthew 5:3-7

19. Love Mercy “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.”
Matthew 5:3-7

20. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.”
Matthew 5:3-7

21. Act Justly “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.”
Matthew 5:3-7

22. righteousness, justice

23. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration

24. Prison Fellowship International
World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
Prison Fellowship International

25. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair

26. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair
“crime causes harm and justice
requires repairing that harm”
Prison Fellowship International

27. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair
How?

28. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair
“the best way to determine how to do that
is to have the parties decide together”

29. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair
exclude VS. encounter

30. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair
exclude VS. encounter
victim

31. education/rehabilitation
World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair
exclude VS. encounter
victim
education/rehabilitation

32. Professor Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom
It’s true that education is a good thing for those who spend their days behind bars—it significantly reduces re-incarceration rates, saves the state on average $5 for every $1 invested, and increases the opportunity for people to find meaningful work upon release. Within prisons, education contributes to better race relations, generates good communication between residents and correctional staff, and decreases violence.
Professor Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom

33. North Park Seminary Program at
Stateville Prison

34. Professor Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom
Yet any claim that we who are free are the ones ministering to or “fixing” those who are incarcerated is misguided. It renders insignificant the transformative work done by the students who are incarcerated.
Professor Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom

35. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair
exclude VS. encounter

36. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair
exclude VS. encounter
stagnate

37. World’s Justice = Retribution VS. God’s Justice = Restoration
punish VS. repair
exclude VS. encounter
stagnate VS. transform

38. God’s Justice = Restoration
repair
encounter
transform

39. Call to Faith
Identify that place where you feel yourself "hungering and thirsting for justice."

40. How are you being called to humbly
Call to Faith
Identify that place where you feel yourself "hungering and thirsting for justice."
How are you being called to humbly
and mercifully seek restorative justice
in that situation?

41. How are you being called to humbly
Call to Faith
Identify that place where you feel yourself "hungering and thirsting for justice."
How are you being called to humbly
and mercifully seek restorative justice
in that situation?
repair - encounter - transform

42. “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”