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• Building Congregational Vitality
• Dismantling Structural Racism
• Eradicating Systemic Poverty

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Congregational Vitality

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• Poverty is a lack of material and social capital to ensure basic well being.

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• Systemic Poverty is a human construct designed to exploit people through laws, policies, practices and an array of dynamics that lead to the perpetuation of an impoverished status

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• Structural racism in the United States is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics—historical, cultural, institutional and interpersonal—that routinely advantages whites while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color.

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• Structural Racism is a social construct designed to concentrate capital (material and social) within one group or race of people over others.

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Structural Racism

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• “White Supremacy” - is founded in the belief that people differ along biological and genetic lines and that people with white skin and features are superior to other groups.

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• “White Privilege”- is the advantage of having greater access to power and resources than people of color in the same situation do.”

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Terms Linked to Structural Racism

³¹ “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. ³² All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, ³³ and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. ³⁴ Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;  35 for I was hungry and you gave me food,

Biblically Based - Matthew 25:31-46

I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ³⁶ I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? ³⁸ And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? ³⁹ And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?’ 

Biblically Based - Matthew 25:31-46

⁴⁰ And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family,^[a] you did it to me.’ ⁴¹ Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; ⁴² for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 

Biblically Based - Matthew 25:31-46

⁴⁴ Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?’ ⁴⁵ Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ ⁴⁶ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Biblically Based - Matthew 25:31-46

Theologically Grounded - Matthew 25

What we DO matters to God

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Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them, he/she is like a person who built their house on a rock… Matthew 7:24

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Theologically Grounded- Matthew 25

The standard of judgment for ALL nations is how they care for those who sit on the margins of society

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As you did it unto the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it unto me…

Matthew 25:40

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“Least of These”

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• mikroi: these “little ones” (brothers and sisters or siblings] a term Jesus often uses in Matthew to refer to disciples.

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• “Least” (elachistos) is the superlative.

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Theologically Grounded - Matthew 25

Jesus is present in those who suffer.

As you did it unto the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it unto me…

Matthew 25:40

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The Center of Ministry is in the margins.

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“Righteous”

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“The term translated “righteous” (Greek dikaioi) is one form of a favorite term in Matthew, dikaiosynē (righteousness). Its meaning joins justice and mercy in a way reminiscent of the Hebrew term tsedaqah. It is no more than simple “justice” for those who have the ability to care for those who have need through acts of mercy. This term appears with such frequency in Matthew that it is sometimes referred to as the ‘Gospel of Justice.’”

- Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible - Matthew

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Website pcusa.org/matthew25

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Matthew 25 Classes – Stony Point JCS Seminary

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Being Matthew 25

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“Matthew 25 Hymn” – Jesus be With Us”

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Prayer

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Jeremiah 33:3

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