We started out our study talking about the prophetic voice. I shared about Brueggemann's idea that the community of faith must hold an alternative vision of the world, and that the church's vocation is to critique the dominant culture around us and energize our communities by providing an alternative vision.
There have been some ideas shared in the comments that I wanted to highlight here. Then feel free to add more in the comments section below here.
* What is that alternative vision? The idea of "shalom" comes to mind - right/whole relationships with each other, ourselves, creation, and God. What scriptures come to mind when you think about this alternative vision?
* How can we critique the dominant culture?
Some ideas have been mentioned:
1. by living more with less
2. by questioning what it means to live at, or beyond our means - this includes our homes, our food, our transportation, ...
3. thinking through our connections to others (the use/construction of technology and the resources extracted from other countries was mentioned this past Sunday; the export of asbestos from Canada to India; native issues within Canada)
* How can we energize ourselves and our communities to move towards this alternative vision?
What are your ideas?
[more to come about our readings for this week]
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