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Vision Statement:

T he Kingdom on the Margins Luke 17.11-21 Doug Brown audio, pdf , and power point available @ karenvineyard.org. Vision Statement: To be a relevant church that exists for Christ, our community, and the world. Mukoma Wa Ngugi Author, Nairobi Heat & Black Star Nairobi.

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Vision Statement:

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  1. The Kingdom on the MarginsLuke 17.11-21Doug Brownaudio, pdf, and power point available @ karenvineyard.org

  2. Vision Statement: To be a relevant church that exists for Christ, our community, and the world.

  3. MukomaWaNgugiAuthor, Nairobi Heat &Black Star Nairobi.

  4. The Kingdom of God • In the Gospels, Jesus only uses the word “church” once or twice, but uses the phrase “Kingdom of God” or “Kingdom of Heaven” over 100 times. • Jesus spoke of the kingdom as both a realm over which God rules as well as God’s actual reign. Jesus proclamation of the kingdom of God suggests that the future and present are inseparably interwoven. He stresses the present impact of the imminent future.

  5. The Church as a Sign of the Kingdom • The church is not the kingdom of God • The church is created by the kingdom of God • The church is a witness to the kingdom • The church is an instrument of the kingdom. • The church is a custodian of the kingdom.

  6. To be a relevant church that “exists” . . . Definition: “exists” •  to have real being • to have being in a specified place • to continue to be  • to have life • to live under adverse circumstances

  7. ethnic/national marginJesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee v.11

  8. Do not oppress a stranger; you yourselves know how it feels to be a stranger, because you were strangers in Egypt. Exodus 23.9

  9. What does it feel like to belong?

  10. Cultural/socio-economic marginThere is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3.28

  11. Cultural Collisions on the Margin

  12. Similarities with the 10 lepers 1) all diseased 2) all determined to do something about it 3) all thought Jesus might do something 4) all acknowledged Jesus as Master 5) all obeyed and went to find the priests 6) all were healed. “One of them . . .”

  13. “Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future” Albert Camus

  14. Spiritual margin Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ . . . without hope and without God in the world. Ephesians 2.12

  15. Francis Xavier

  16. Three Questions “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?  Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”

  17. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2.3-4

  18. “God’s self-revelation to humanity does not occur from the centers of world power but in the margins of society. It is not from the courts of Pharaoh that God’s laws are unveiled to humanity but from their slaves. Nor does the incarnation occur in the imperial palace of Caesar, or to the household of the high priest in Jerusalem. Rather, He is made flesh among the peasants around Bethlehem.” Miguel Del La Torre

  19. Dr. LaminSanneh, author ofSummoned from the Margin

  20. All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5.18-19

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