Understanding Community

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Understanding Community

• Bringing Healing
• to Culture Community
• Pastor Gary M. Skinner

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Gods Plan for the Nations

• God is Creator and Ultimate Sovereign.
• God has a Blueprint for Society.
• Through Abraham all nations would be blessed
• God set the times and places for all nations
• We must disciple nations
• Jesus will rule over all nations as King

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Understanding Community
Today

• Gods Blueprint for Community.

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Gods Blueprint for Community.

• Preamble
• Living in Kampala
• The issues
• Sin is both personal and corporate
• Need to understand theology in personal and
  public perspective
• What we intend to do
• Bring about cultural healing
• Our vision statement.

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Gods Blueprint for Community.

• The Seven Spheres of Authority
• 1. Family - Relationships
• 2. Church - Morals and Values
• 3. State - Justice, Security
  Infrastructure
• 4. Education- Development of Character
• 5. Business - Economy, Finance,
  Services
• 7. The Arts - Worship
• 8. Media- Information

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Gods Blueprint for Community.

• The Systems of Society
• The Religious System
• The value setting structure
• That which fences about.
• The essential and core beliefs
• The Political System
• How society orders its public life
• The Economic System
• How society agrees to generate and distribute its
  wealth.

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Gods Blueprint for Community.
Religion
Religion
Politics
Economy
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Gods Blueprint for Community.
Religion
Politics
Economy
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Gods Blueprint for Community.

• What is a System.
• An organized group of people around three things
• Values
• Structures
• Individuals
• We must work for systemic change

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Gods Blueprint for Community.

• What is a System.
• An organized group of people around three things
• Values
• Structures
• Individuals
• We must work for systemic change

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The Deuteronomy View

• A Religion of Relationship
• A Politics of Justice
• An Economics of Equity

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A Religion of Relationship

• The Law is Summarized by Love
• Luke 1027-28
• Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
  with all your soul and with all your strength and
  with all your mind and, Love your neighbor as
  yourself. You have answered correctly, Jesus
  replied. Do this and you will live.

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A Religion of Relationship

• A National Love Relationship with God. Deut.
  64-5
• 4 Hear, O Israel The LORD our God, the LORD is
  one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your
  heart and with all your soul and with all your
  strength.
• This is a National Issue.

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A Religion of Relationship

• A National Love Relationship with God.
• An Active relationship
• Not just holding proper beliefs
• Celebrating proper liturgies.
• Separate ourselves from other Gods.
• The Lord is the Ultimate Authority in the Land.

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A Religion of Relationship

• A National Love Relationship with God.
• A love relationship with others
• 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If
  anyone says, I love God, yet hates his brother,
  he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his
  brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom
  he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this
  command Whoever loves God must also love his
  brother.

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A Religion of Relationship

• A National Love Relationship with God.
• A love relationship with others
• God is love
• A nation reflects the characteristics of the
  nature of its God.
• God is just

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A Religion of Relationship

• Conclusion
• Begin a loving relationship with God right now.
• Determine to love those around you with the Love
  of Jesus.

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A Religion of Relationship

• A National Love Relationship with God.
• A love relationship with others