E10 "How can the Church DO Justice?"

07/13/20 • 96 min

Practicing Justice in the Church
Charles Lee “The Freeze Project” and LaundryLove.comWhat can the church do to “do justice and love mercy”? Micah 6:8

Retributive Justice
- Should the Church hire Kingdom Lawyers to review and defend underserved and underrepresented individuals that are not getting justice?
- If the church does not have the means to hire someone full-time on staff, are there organizations already doing this work that the church can support? Ex: The Innocence Project and/or The Equal Justice Initiative?
Restorative Justice
- Debt Annihilation House Churches paying off each other’s consumer debts after completing the personal debt snowball.
- Cancelling medical debt through organizations like RIP Medical Debt.
- “Baby Bonds” The Church would set aside $10,000 for children born into the congregation upon their birth. This would mature for 22 years into ~80k and it would be an effort to give all an equal opportunity as they start their adult life. We cannot control equal efforts made or equal outcomes, but we can provide an equal opportunity(Luke 19, Matthew 25). But one my ask, “should we just give 22 year olds money just for being born? Might this tempt the immature to follow in the footsteps of the prodigal son?” Galatians 5:13-15

The Church should provide a curriculum of life changing experiences in order to shape the worldview of those that will take on the responsibility of these funds so that they will be as a blessing and not a curse unto them.

The 7 Experiences
1. Climb a mountain as a part of a “Trek” type ministry.
2. Complete a significant sailing passage as crew with a ministry such as “God and the Sea”
3. Go on a journey to the holy lands.
4. Experience abject poverty.
5. Attend a PDC & ATC and become certified in both at a location such as Wheaton Labs.
6. Attend a building workshop through Domegaia, Bamboo U, Monolithic Dome Institute, Earthship Biotecture, etc. and build and live in a small structure for a month that demonstrates the building technique you have learned for the workshop and write a paper on the experience and what you would do differently if you were to build a forever home.
7. They would have to attend and pass a financial peace course with curriculum formed by a Christian organization such as Thrivent.

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Practicing Justice in the Church
Charles Lee “The Freeze Project” and LaundryLove.comWhat can the church do to “do justice and love mercy”? Micah 6:8

Retributive Justice
- Should the Church hire Kingdom Lawyers to review and defend underserved and underrepresented individuals that are not getting justice?
- If the church does not have the means to hire someone full-time on staff, are there organizations already doing this work that the church can support? Ex: The Innocence Project and/or The Equal Justice Initiative?
Restorative Justice
- Debt Annihilation House Churches paying off each other’s consumer debts after completing the personal debt snowball.
- Cancelling medical debt through organizations like RIP Medical Debt.
- “Baby Bonds” The Church would set aside $10,000 for children born into the congregation upon their birth. This would mature for 22 years into ~80k and it would be an effort to give all an equal opportunity as they start their adult life. We cannot control equal efforts made or equal outcomes, but we can provide an equal opportunity(Luke 19, Matthew 25). But one my ask, “should we just give 22 year olds money just for being born? Might this tempt the immature to follow in the footsteps of the prodigal son?” Galatians 5:13-15

The 7 Experiences
1. Climb a mountain as a part of a “Trek” type ministry.
2. Complete a significant sailing passage as crew with a ministry such as “God and the Sea”
3. Go on a journey to the holy lands.
4. Experience abject poverty.
5. Attend a PDC & ATC and become certified in both at a location such as Wheaton Labs.
6. Attend a building workshop through Domegaia, Bamboo U, Monolithic Dome Institute, Earthship Biotecture, etc. and build and live in a small structure for a month that demonstrates the building technique you have learned for the workshop and write a paper on the experience and what you would do differently if you were to build a forever home.
7. They would have to attend and pass a financial peace course with curriculum formed by a Christian organization such as Thrivent.

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E9 "Struggle Sessions and Cancel Cults"

Biblical Justice: What is it? "Justice" by the Bible Project

“Vengeance Is Mine Says The Lord” vs “Vengeance Is Mine Says Me”

Restorative Justice vs. Retributive Justice

“Retributive justice is a perspective that focuses on punishment for offenders, while restorative justice focuses on the relationship between the offender and the victim.”

-Cain and Abel (Genesis 4)

Retributive Justice has two sides

Struggle Sessions and the Knitting Wars

“A struggle session was a form of public humiliation and torture that was used by the Communist Party of China (CPC) at various times in the Mao era, particularly years immediately before and after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and during the Cultural Revolution. The aim of a struggle session was to shape public opinion and humiliate, persecute, or execute political rivals and those deemed class enemies.

In general, the victim of a struggle session was forced to admit various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until he or she confessed. Struggle sessions were often held at the workplace of the accused, but they were sometimes conducted in sports stadiums where large crowds would gather if the target was well-known.” -Wikipedia

Getting “Cancelled”

“Cancel culture refers to the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive. Cancel culture is generally discussed as being performed on social media in the form of group shaming.”

“There’s just something unsustainable about an environment that demands constant atonement but actively disdains the very idea of forgiveness” -Elizabeth Bruenig

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E11 "Rethinking Education"

Dexter: Re-inventing Education Conversation

Here's a great conversation with the CEO of Dexter and Zac and Jesse from "Now You Know": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5zIWw4gu8c

Dexter's Website explaining a "Full Stack" approach to education: https://dexter.live/

Declaring Jubilee and Sabbath on the education system. If parents, students, teachers, and administrators are constantly stressed out and feel over extended, is that a sign that things need to be reworked?

How does rethinking formal education make us rethink how we teach and do ministry?
How does it challenge us in how we approach preaching and teaching on a congregational level? How should we share responsibilities on a congregational level? Here's a great conversation about that: The Elephant Room Round 1; Session 5

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