Wholistic Mission
Begin from Me
Christopher J. H. Wright
Our Identities
Nowadays Salt and Light???
What is "Love" in the eyes
of our neighbors?
What is Wholistic Mission?
Why we need to practice Empathy?
Where are we heading to?
Empathy: Where are we now?
Listen: What are obstacle(s)?
Debriefing of Good Listener
Resource for Act of Empathy
2nd promise
3rd promise
2.God appointed lay persons like you and me - Connecting by Larry Crabb“Releasing the power of God through our lives into the hearts and souls of others requires that we both understand and enter into a kind of relation that only the gospel makes possible, a kind of relating that I call connecting. This kind of relating depends entirely on deep fellowship with Christ and then spills over on to other people with the power to change their lives. The power to meaningfully change lives depends not on advice, though counsel and rebuke play a part; not on insight, though self-awareness that disrupts complacency and points toward new understanding is important; but on connecting, on bringing two people into an experience of shared life. We make a serious mistake when we substitute moralism for connection. When we think that pressuring people to do what’s right will promote good change, we aren’t concerned with connection with people.”
Book - Living as the People of God:
The Relevance of Old Testament Ethics
Challenges are......
BUT positive thing is...
Salt & Light
Matthew 5:13-16
Game:
pair up and drawing two circles in a paper
then second round of
three shapes
Houghton Wan and Yoyo Yung
Game:
three persons in a group, one person keeps talking
in 5 minutes, another one listen and
third one add if necessary
Push Factor: If you are good at empathy, supercomputer can never replace you...hehehehe!!!
Video of robot
Pull Factor: If you are good at empathy, perhaps God will use you one day like this social entrepreneur in Japan
Kikiya in Tokyo
Let's make Jesus know by others day by day!!!
Isaiah 42:6, 49:6