•Leviticus 23:3•“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. They must go away from the screech of dissonant days, from the nervousness and fury of acquisitiveness and the betrayal in embezzling their own life. They must say farewell to manual work and learn to understand that the world has already been created and will survive without the help of humans. Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.” –Abraham Joshua Heschel, “Sabbath”•Sabbath is mentioned about 120 times in the Bible. That’s a lot. That would make it one of the most mentioned issues in all of Scripture. The word Salvation is only stated 112 times. •Exodus 20:1-17•“At the heart of the original sin is the refusal to accept God’s rhythm for us. The essence of being in God’s image is our ability, like God, to stop. We imitate God by stopping our work and resting. If we can stop for one day a week we touch something deep within us as image bearers of God. Our human brain, our bodies, our spirits, and our emotions become wired by God for the rhythm of work and rest in God. The Sabbath serve as ropes so we might live in a rhythmic and joyful way even in the midst of blizzards [or hurricanes]” –Peter Scazzero•Sabbath forces us to embrace our limits:1. To stop - you are not a machine. If you don’t stop you’ll lose hold of your rope, of God, of the image within you - and you’ll be thrown about by the hurricane of life2. Rest - take a nap. Like a “snow day.” Can’t go out, just have to rest.3. Delight - do what you love! Do what brings you life! Enjoy creation, enjoy each other, eat good food and enjoy it (even if it has sugar in it), play a game, take a walk, have a picnic, take pictures, watch a movie, slow down and pay attention to the beauty of life.4. Contemplate- keeping God at the center of modern life may be on of the most difficult endeavors before us. Pray. Read a psalm together. Pray together. Reflect on the goodness of God in your life. Count your blessings. Stopping to breathe the air of eternity.5. Resets our rhythms. We are living in God’s world. God’s time. God’s beauty. God’s creation. We can’t move Sabbath, get around it. It’s a wall. We with the holiness of time, the importance of life, the centrality of God every 7th day.•“As I seek to fulfill my priestly function I look at my life, I look at the physical universe that surrounds me, I look at Nature, I look into the human predicament of every person that I meet. And I cannot find something that is unblemished. The closer I look, the more imperfections I find. Everything and everyone is in process. We are all searching for balance in a world that is in flux. We are all flawed; our physical bodies are slowly or quickly decaying. This is the paradox of life. I and everything that I offer is likewise flawed, marked with the limitations of my particular perspective and prejudice. And yet, the truth of perfection permeates the atmosphere of my life, like a tantalizing fragrance.” –Rabbi Gold

•Leviticus 23:3•“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. They must go away from the screech of dissonant days, from the nervousness and fury of acquisitiveness and the betrayal in embezzling their own life. They must say farewell to manual work and learn to understand that the world has already been created and will survive without the help of humans. Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.” –Abraham Joshua Heschel, “Sabbath”•Sabbath is mentioned about 120 times in the Bible. That’s a lot. That would make it one of the most mentioned issues in all of Scripture. The word Salvation is only stated 112 times. •Exodus 20:1-17•“At the heart of the original sin is the refusal to accept God’s rhythm for us. The essence of being in God’s image is our ability, like God, to stop. We imitate God by stopping our work and resting. If we can stop for one day a week we touch something deep within us as image bearers of God. Our human brain, our bodies, our spirits, and our emotions become wired by God for the rhythm of work and rest in God. The Sabbath serve as ropes so we might live in a rhythmic and joyful way even in the midst of blizzards [or hurricanes]” –Peter Scazzero•Sabbath forces us to embrace our limits:1. To stop - you are not a machine. If you don’t stop you’ll lose hold of your rope, of God, of the image within you - and you’ll be thrown about by the hurricane of life2. Rest - take a nap. Like a “snow day.” Can’t go out, just have to rest.3. Delight - do what you love! Do what brings you life! Enjoy creation, enjoy each other, eat good food and enjoy it (even if it has sugar in it), play a game, take a walk, have a picnic, take pictures, watch a movie, slow down and pay attention to the beauty of life.4. Contemplate- keeping God at the center of modern life may be on of the most difficult endeavors before us. Pray. Read a psalm together. Pray together. Reflect on the goodness of God in your life. Count your blessings. Stopping to breathe the air of eternity.5. Resets our rhythms. We are living in God’s world. God’s time. God’s beauty. God’s creation. We can’t move Sabbath, get around it. It’s a wall. We with the holiness of time, the importance of life, the centrality of God every 7th day.•“As I seek to fulfill my priestly function I look at my life, I look at the physical universe that surrounds me, I look at Nature, I look into the human predicament of every person that I meet. And I cannot find something that is unblemished. The closer I look, the more imperfections I find. Everything and everyone is in process. We are all searching for balance in a world that is in flux. We are all flawed; our physical bodies are slowly or quickly decaying. This is the paradox of life. I and everything that I offer is likewise flawed, marked with the limitations of my particular perspective and prejudice. And yet, the truth of perfection permeates the atmosphere of my life, like a tantalizing fragrance.” –Rabbi Gold

What is the Bible primarily concerned with? When we talk about salvation – I think we are talking about a mix of 4 elements. 1. Worship God, not idolatry2. Liberation from oppressive forces and setting things right – justice3. Shalom – human dignifying relationships of peace4. Communal economics for the purpose of flourishingLeviticus 27: 30-32Leviticus 25:8-14, 23, 24Deut. 19:14Enclosure: the legal capacity of the more powerful parties to claim exclusive right to a land to the exclusion of the others so that the land can be legally enclosed thus privatizing the land to legally keep others off the land.Enclosure allows:Triage: intentional elimination of those who are judged to be superfluous, marginal, and not of sufficient value to sustain. “The linkage between enclosure (that denies land to some) and triage is based on the conviction that one cannot live without land. Everyone must have access to land. (In a mass urban society, everyone must have the social, economic equivalent of land.) It behooves us to recognize that all free-market theory that sees to separate economic transactions from social relations is destructive, so that the poor are used and thrown away. The church must make the case out of its text that such land practice and economic theory – which blatantly serve certain vested interests – are not value free “laws,” but are the practice of visibly destructive values. The reason land markers cannot be moved is because land markers enact and assert social relationships that include inalienable guaranteed rights of the weak in the face of the strong, of the poor in the face of the economically powerful.” – Walter Brueggemann, Land“The land indeed will be redistributed. This relates to the practice of the Jubilee Year, which consists of returning land to its rightful owner. The land is not managed according to calculating economic transactions. There may be such transactions, but they happen in contexts of promise and inheritance. It is worth noting that the powerful tradition of land redistribution can be understood as the center of Luke’s presentation of Jesus. Jesus is a threat to the vested interests in his time because he proposed to give land and dignity back to those who had lost it. I judge such matters to be important among us because of the great revolutions of our time against colonial power are in fact an effort to redistribute land according to tribal covenants that have been gravely distorted in the interests of concentrated surplus. It will not do to dismiss as terrorist or communist those who insist on implementing the old promissory land management in the fact of present settlements based on seizure.” –Walter Brueggemann, LandLuke 16:13 “The greatest obstacle to faith in our time may well be that most of us are too invested in securing our own futures to trust Jesus for the good life he wants to give us now…The tactic of eternal investments involves learning to entrust our futures to God, believing in an economics of providence. The tactic of economic friendship is similar, but it emphasize this: God’s economy comes to us as a community of friendship. Though Jesus made it clear that miracles happen, its not God’s standard operating procedure to rain bread from heaven or provide money from a fish’s mouth. Instead, God invites us into the abundance of eternal life through economic relationships with other people.” -Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, God’s EconomyDuet 15:1-5Saint Basil the Great (330–379 AD):Fling wide your doors; give your wealth free passage everywhere! As a great river flows by a thousand channels through fertile country, so let your wealth run through many conduits to the homes of the poor. Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul…Money kept standing idle is worthless; but moving and changing hands it benefits the community and brings increase… “I am wronging no one,” you say, “I am merely holding on to what is mine.” What is yours! Who gave it to you so that you could bring it into life with you? Why, you are like a man who pinches a seat at the theater at the expense of latecomers, claiming ownership of what was for common use. That’s what the rich are like; having seized what belongs to all, they claim it as their own on the basis of having got there first. Whereas if everyone took for himself enough to meet his immediate needs and released the rest for those in need of it, there would be no rich and no poor.Did you not come naked out of the womb? Will you not go naked back into the earth? (Job 1) So where did the wealth you now enjoy come from? If you say “from nowhere,”you deny God, ignore the Creator, are ungrateful to the Giver. If you say “from God,”then explain why it was given to you. When a man strips another of his clothes, he is called a thief. Should not a man who has the power to clothe the naked but does not do so be called the same? The bread in your larder belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do injustice to every man whom you could help but do not. If you are rich, how can you remain so? If you cared for the poor, it would consume your wealth. When each one receives a little for one’s needs, and when all owners distribute their means simultaneously for the care of the needy, no one will possess more than his neighbor. Yet it is plain that you have very many lands. Why? Because you have subordinated the relief and comfort of many to your convenience. And so, the more you abound in your riches, the more you are deficient in love.So what do we do? What steps can we take?1.Realize and remind ourselves that we live in God’s world, God’s economy and God’s future. 2.Give – tithe to church, give to other things, give to the poor, give to missionaries. Give, give, give, give, give, give, give whatever you can whenever you can – our future depends upon it.3.Don’t waste money. People need it! Get a budget, go to the workshop. Treat your money as sacred and use it with reverence. 4.Live on less – so you can give more. 5.If you make an investment – make Kingdom investments with a vision of economic friendship6.Divest in the economic ideologies of this world and remember who you are7.Hear the trumpet of Jubilee

What is the Bible primarily concerned with? When we talk about salvation – I think we are talking about a mix of 4 elements. 1. Worship God, not idolatry2. Liberation from oppressive forces and setting things right – justice3. Shalom – human dignifying relationships of peace4. Communal economics for the purpose of flourishingLeviticus 27: 30-32Leviticus 25:8-14, 23, 24Deut. 19:14Enclosure: the legal capacity of the more powerful parties to claim exclusive right to a land to the exclusion of the others so that the land can be legally enclosed thus privatizing the land to legally keep others off the land.Enclosure allows:Triage: intentional elimination of those who are judged to be superfluous, marginal, and not of sufficient value to sustain. “The linkage between enclosure (that denies land to some) and triage is based on the conviction that one cannot live without land. Everyone must have access to land. (In a mass urban society, everyone must have the social, economic equivalent of land.) It behooves us to recognize that all free-market theory that sees to separate economic transactions from social relations is destructive, so that the poor are used and thrown away. The church must make the case out of its text that such land practice and economic theory – which blatantly serve certain vested interests – are not value free “laws,” but are the practice of visibly destructive values. The reason land markers cannot be moved is because land markers enact and assert social relationships that include inalienable guaranteed rights of the weak in the face of the strong, of the poor in the face of the economically powerful.” – Walter Brueggemann, Land“The land indeed will be redistributed. This relates to the practice of the Jubilee Year, which consists of returning land to its rightful owner. The land is not managed according to calculating economic transactions. There may be such transactions, but they happen in contexts of promise and inheritance. It is worth noting that the powerful tradition of land redistribution can be understood as the center of Luke’s presentation of Jesus. Jesus is a threat to the vested interests in his time because he proposed to give land and dignity back to those who had lost it. I judge such matters to be important among us because of the great revolutions of our time against colonial power are in fact an effort to redistribute land according to tribal covenants that have been gravely distorted in the interests of concentrated surplus. It will not do to dismiss as terrorist or communist those who insist on implementing the old promissory land management in the fact of present settlements based on seizure.” –Walter Brueggemann, LandLuke 16:13 “The greatest obstacle to faith in our time may well be that most of us are too invested in securing our own futures to trust Jesus for the good life he wants to give us now…The tactic of eternal investments involves learning to entrust our futures to God, believing in an economics of providence. The tactic of economic friendship is similar, but it emphasize this: God’s economy comes to us as a community of friendship. Though Jesus made it clear that miracles happen, its not God’s standard operating procedure to rain bread from heaven or provide money from a fish’s mouth. Instead, God invites us into the abundance of eternal life through economic relationships with other people.” -Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, God’s EconomyDuet 15:1-5Saint Basil the Great (330–379 AD):Fling wide your doors; give your wealth free passage everywhere! As a great river flows by a thousand channels through fertile country, so let your wealth run through many conduits to the homes of the poor. Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul…Money kept standing idle is worthless; but moving and changing hands it benefits the community and brings increase… “I am wronging no one,” you say, “I am merely holding on to what is mine.” What is yours! Who gave it to you so that you could bring it into life with you? Why, you are like a man who pinches a seat at the theater at the expense of latecomers, claiming ownership of what was for common use. That’s what the rich are like; having seized what belongs to all, they claim it as their own on the basis of having got there first. Whereas if everyone took for himself enough to meet his immediate needs and released the rest for those in need of it, there would be no rich and no poor.Did you not come naked out of the womb? Will you not go naked back into the earth? (Job 1) So where did the wealth you now enjoy come from? If you say “from nowhere,”you deny God, ignore the Creator, are ungrateful to the Giver. If you say “from God,”then explain why it was given to you. When a man strips another of his clothes, he is called a thief. Should not a man who has the power to clothe the naked but does not do so be called the same? The bread in your larder belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do injustice to every man whom you could help but do not. If you are rich, how can you remain so? If you cared for the poor, it would consume your wealth. When each one receives a little for one’s needs, and when all owners distribute their means simultaneously for the care of the needy, no one will possess more than his neighbor. Yet it is plain that you have very many lands. Why? Because you have subordinated the relief and comfort of many to your convenience. And so, the more you abound in your riches, the more you are deficient in love.So what do we do? What steps can we take?1.Realize and remind ourselves that we live in God’s world, God’s economy and God’s future. 2.Give – tithe to church, give to other things, give to the poor, give to missionaries. Give, give, give, give, give, give, give whatever you can whenever you can – our future depends upon it.3.Don’t waste money. People need it! Get a budget, go to the workshop. Treat your money as sacred and use it with reverence. 4.Live on less – so you can give more. 5.If you make an investment – make Kingdom investments with a vision of economic friendship6.Divest in the economic ideologies of this world and remember who you are7.Hear the trumpet of Jubilee

What is the Bible primarily concerned with? When we talk about salvation – I think we are talking about a mix of 4 elements. 1. Worship God, not idolatry2. Liberation from oppressive forces and setting things right – justice3. Shalom – human dignifying relationships of peace4. Communal economics for the purpose of flourishingLeviticus 27: 30-32Leviticus 25:8-14, 23, 24Deut. 19:14Enclosure: the legal capacity of the more powerful parties to claim exclusive right to a land to the exclusion of the others so that the land can be legally enclosed thus privatizing the land to legally keep others off the land.Enclosure allows:Triage: intentional elimination of those who are judged to be superfluous, marginal, and not of sufficient value to sustain. “The linkage between enclosure (that denies land to some) and triage is based on the conviction that one cannot live without land. Everyone must have access to land. (In a mass urban society, everyone must have the social, economic equivalent of land.) It behooves us to recognize that all free-market theory that sees to separate economic transactions from social relations is destructive, so that the poor are used and thrown away. The church must make the case out of its text that such land practice and economic theory – which blatantly serve certain vested interests – are not value free “laws,” but are the practice of visibly destructive values. The reason land markers cannot be moved is because land markers enact and assert social relationships that include inalienable guaranteed rights of the weak in the face of the strong, of the poor in the face of the economically powerful.” – Walter Brueggemann, Land“The land indeed will be redistributed. This relates to the practice of the Jubilee Year, which consists of returning land to its rightful owner. The land is not managed according to calculating economic transactions. There may be such transactions, but they happen in contexts of promise and inheritance. It is worth noting that the powerful tradition of land redistribution can be understood as the center of Luke’s presentation of Jesus. Jesus is a threat to the vested interests in his time because he proposed to give land and dignity back to those who had lost it. I judge such matters to be important among us because of the great revolutions of our time against colonial power are in fact an effort to redistribute land according to tribal covenants that have been gravely distorted in the interests of concentrated surplus. It will not do to dismiss as terrorist or communist those who insist on implementing the old promissory land management in the fact of present settlements based on seizure.” –Walter Brueggemann, LandLuke 16:13 “The greatest obstacle to faith in our time may well be that most of us are too invested in securing our own futures to trust Jesus for the good life he wants to give us now…The tactic of eternal investments involves learning to entrust our futures to God, believing in an economics of providence. The tactic of economic friendship is similar, but it emphasize this: God’s economy comes to us as a community of friendship. Though Jesus made it clear that miracles happen, its not God’s standard operating procedure to rain bread from heaven or provide money from a fish’s mouth. Instead, God invites us into the abundance of eternal life through economic relationships with other people.” -Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, God’s EconomyDuet 15:1-5Saint Basil the Great (330–379 AD):Fling wide your doors; give your wealth free passage everywhere! As a great river flows by a thousand channels through fertile country, so let your wealth run through many conduits to the homes of the poor. Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul…Money kept standing idle is worthless; but moving and changing hands it benefits the community and brings increase… “I am wronging no one,” you say, “I am merely holding on to what is mine.” What is yours! Who gave it to you so that you could bring it into life with you? Why, you are like a man who pinches a seat at the theater at the expense of latecomers, claiming ownership of what was for common use. That’s what the rich are like; having seized what belongs to all, they claim it as their own on the basis of having got there first. Whereas if everyone took for himself enough to meet his immediate needs and released the rest for those in need of it, there would be no rich and no poor.Did you not come naked out of the womb? Will you not go naked back into the earth? (Job 1) So where did the wealth you now enjoy come from? If you say “from nowhere,”you deny God, ignore the Creator, are ungrateful to the Giver. If you say “from God,”then explain why it was given to you. When a man strips another of his clothes, he is called a thief. Should not a man who has the power to clothe the naked but does not do so be called the same? The bread in your larder belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do injustice to every man whom you could help but do not. If you are rich, how can you remain so? If you cared for the poor, it would consume your wealth. When each one receives a little for one’s needs, and when all owners distribute their means simultaneously for the care of the needy, no one will possess more than his neighbor. Yet it is plain that you have very many lands. Why? Because you have subordinated the relief and comfort of many to your convenience. And so, the more you abound in your riches, the more you are deficient in love.So what do we do? What steps can we take?1.Realize and remind ourselves that we live in God’s world, God’s economy and God’s future. 2.Give – tithe to church, give to other things, give to the poor, give to missionaries. Give, give, give, give, give, give, give whatever you can whenever you can – our future depends upon it.3.Don’t waste money. People need it! Get a budget, go to the workshop. Treat your money as sacred and use it with reverence. 4.Live on less – so you can give more. 5.If you make an investment – make Kingdom investments with a vision of economic friendship6.Divest in the economic ideologies of this world and remember who you are7.Hear the trumpet of Jubilee

What is the Bible primarily concerned with? When we talk about salvation – I think we are talking about a mix of 4 elements. 1. Worship God, not idolatry2. Liberation from oppressive forces and setting things right – justice3. Shalom – human dignifying relationships of peace4. Communal economics for the purpose of flourishingLeviticus 27: 30-32Leviticus 25:8-14, 23, 24Deut. 19:14Enclosure: the legal capacity of the more powerful parties to claim exclusive right to a land to the exclusion of the others so that the land can be legally enclosed thus privatizing the land to legally keep others off the land.Enclosure allows:Triage: intentional elimination of those who are judged to be superfluous, marginal, and not of sufficient value to sustain. “The linkage between enclosure (that denies land to some) and triage is based on the conviction that one cannot live without land. Everyone must have access to land. (In a mass urban society, everyone must have the social, economic equivalent of land.) It behooves us to recognize that all free-market theory that sees to separate economic transactions from social relations is destructive, so that the poor are used and thrown away. The church must make the case out of its text that such land practice and economic theory – which blatantly serve certain vested interests – are not value free “laws,” but are the practice of visibly destructive values. The reason land markers cannot be moved is because land markers enact and assert social relationships that include inalienable guaranteed rights of the weak in the face of the strong, of the poor in the face of the economically powerful.” – Walter Brueggemann, Land“The land indeed will be redistributed. This relates to the practice of the Jubilee Year, which consists of returning land to its rightful owner. The land is not managed according to calculating economic transactions. There may be such transactions, but they happen in contexts of promise and inheritance. It is worth noting that the powerful tradition of land redistribution can be understood as the center of Luke’s presentation of Jesus. Jesus is a threat to the vested interests in his time because he proposed to give land and dignity back to those who had lost it. I judge such matters to be important among us because of the great revolutions of our time against colonial power are in fact an effort to redistribute land according to tribal covenants that have been gravely distorted in the interests of concentrated surplus. It will not do to dismiss as terrorist or communist those who insist on implementing the old promissory land management in the fact of present settlements based on seizure.” –Walter Brueggemann, LandLuke 16:13 “The greatest obstacle to faith in our time may well be that most of us are too invested in securing our own futures to trust Jesus for the good life he wants to give us now…The tactic of eternal investments involves learning to entrust our futures to God, believing in an economics of providence. The tactic of economic friendship is similar, but it emphasize this: God’s economy comes to us as a community of friendship. Though Jesus made it clear that miracles happen, its not God’s standard operating procedure to rain bread from heaven or provide money from a fish’s mouth. Instead, God invites us into the abundance of eternal life through economic relationships with other people.” -Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, God’s EconomyDuet 15:1-5Saint Basil the Great (330–379 AD):Fling wide your doors; give your wealth free passage everywhere! As a great river flows by a thousand channels through fertile country, so let your wealth run through many conduits to the homes of the poor. Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul…Money kept standing idle is worthless; but moving and changing hands it benefits the community and brings increase… “I am wronging no one,” you say, “I am merely holding on to what is mine.” What is yours! Who gave it to you so that you could bring it into life with you? Why, you are like a man who pinches a seat at the theater at the expense of latecomers, claiming ownership of what was for common use. That’s what the rich are like; having seized what belongs to all, they claim it as their own on the basis of having got there first. Whereas if everyone took for himself enough to meet his immediate needs and released the rest for those in need of it, there would be no rich and no poor.Did you not come naked out of the womb? Will you not go naked back into the earth? (Job 1) So where did the wealth you now enjoy come from? If you say “from nowhere,”you deny God, ignore the Creator, are ungrateful to the Giver. If you say “from God,”then explain why it was given to you. When a man strips another of his clothes, he is called a thief. Should not a man who has the power to clothe the naked but does not do so be called the same? The bread in your larder belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do injustice to every man whom you could help but do not. If you are rich, how can you remain so? If you cared for the poor, it would consume your wealth. When each one receives a little for one’s needs, and when all owners distribute their means simultaneously for the care of the needy, no one will possess more than his neighbor. Yet it is plain that you have very many lands. Why? Because you have subordinated the relief and comfort of many to your convenience. And so, the more you abound in your riches, the more you are deficient in love.So what do we do? What steps can we take?1.Realize and remind ourselves that we live in God’s world, God’s economy and God’s future. 2.Give – tithe to church, give to other things, give to the poor, give to missionaries. Give, give, give, give, give, give, give whatever you can whenever you can – our future depends upon it.3.Don’t waste money. People need it! Get a budget, go to the workshop. Treat your money as sacred and use it with reverence. 4.Live on less – so you can give more. 5.If you make an investment – make Kingdom investments with a vision of economic friendship6.Divest in the economic ideologies of this world and remember who you are7.Hear the trumpet of Jubilee

“One of our key design principles is that we’re built to be triggered into survival mode whenever our survival is perceived to be at significant risk. Survival mode, however, isn’t only an overt state of fear, or the primal terror of being torn apart by a jaguar or grizzly bear. Whenever we feel any kind of pain or emotional distress – whether it’s self-pity, for example, or guilt, or shame – we’re thrown, operationally, into a state of survival mode. Indeed, the biological reason that unpleasant emotions become triggered within us in the first place is to alert us that our survival may be at risk, and to motivate appropriate action to address that risk.”-- Psychology TodayMatthew 5:43-48Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18"When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I have reverence for my parents, where I come from,I protect and cherish the sacred times of rest, I leave the corners of the field,A portion of my earnings for the poor and the stranger, I do not steal or lie and swear falsely,I pay my workers fairly and on time.When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I do not curse the deaf or Put obstacles before the blind,I am fair to rich and poor alike,I don’t gossip,I cannot ignore the violence in my world,I don’t hold grudges or hatred in my heart.When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I tell the truth even when it’s hard,I love my neighbor as I would myself,I keep separate what needs to be separate for its integrity,When I eat I am mindful of resources,I live in awe of holiness of our world,And the presence of the strangerAwakens compassion in me.And we are and should continually be obsessed with a faithful vision that God is in our midst and God is creating something out of nothing to transform lives."-Rabbi Shefa Gold, "Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land"Isaiah 6:1-7Isaiah 35:1-10John 7: 37-39Isaiah 58:5-121 Peter 1: 13-23To move out of survival to God’s creative force we take small steps:1.Surrender to God’s greatness, Here I am Lord. I will live for you. I surrender to your Lordship Jesus, to your plan for my life. I believe that you are greater than me and I am your servant, Jesus – you do not serve me, I serve you.2.Make intentional your margins of justice – carve them out.3.Begin to see people as God sees them – beautiful.4.Give hugs, high fives, compliments, mercy, tenderness – set up routines.5.Do something good for someone, every day – be altruistic.6.Pray that God would show you your purpose in this day – every day7.Seek shalom for others, their well being above your own.

“One of our key design principles is that we’re built to be triggered into survival mode whenever our survival is perceived to be at significant risk. Survival mode, however, isn’t only an overt state of fear, or the primal terror of being torn apart by a jaguar or grizzly bear. Whenever we feel any kind of pain or emotional distress – whether it’s self-pity, for example, or guilt, or shame – we’re thrown, operationally, into a state of survival mode. Indeed, the biological reason that unpleasant emotions become triggered within us in the first place is to alert us that our survival may be at risk, and to motivate appropriate action to address that risk.”-- Psychology TodayMatthew 5:43-48Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18"When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I have reverence for my parents, where I come from,I protect and cherish the sacred times of rest, I leave the corners of the field,A portion of my earnings for the poor and the stranger, I do not steal or lie and swear falsely,I pay my workers fairly and on time.When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I do not curse the deaf or Put obstacles before the blind,I am fair to rich and poor alike,I don’t gossip,I cannot ignore the violence in my world,I don’t hold grudges or hatred in my heart.When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I tell the truth even when it’s hard,I love my neighbor as I would myself,I keep separate what needs to be separate for its integrity,When I eat I am mindful of resources,I live in awe of holiness of our world,And the presence of the strangerAwakens compassion in me.And we are and should continually be obsessed with a faithful vision that God is in our midst and God is creating something out of nothing to transform lives."-Rabbi Shefa Gold, "Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land"Isaiah 6:1-7Isaiah 35:1-10John 7: 37-39Isaiah 58:5-121 Peter 1: 13-23To move out of survival to God’s creative force we take small steps:1.Surrender to God’s greatness, Here I am Lord. I will live for you. I surrender to your Lordship Jesus, to your plan for my life. I believe that you are greater than me and I am your servant, Jesus – you do not serve me, I serve you.2.Make intentional your margins of justice – carve them out.3.Begin to see people as God sees them – beautiful.4.Give hugs, high fives, compliments, mercy, tenderness – set up routines.5.Do something good for someone, every day – be altruistic.6.Pray that God would show you your purpose in this day – every day7.Seek shalom for others, their well being above your own.

“One of our key design principles is that we’re built to be triggered into survival mode whenever our survival is perceived to be at significant risk. Survival mode, however, isn’t only an overt state of fear, or the primal terror of being torn apart by a jaguar or grizzly bear. Whenever we feel any kind of pain or emotional distress – whether it’s self-pity, for example, or guilt, or shame – we’re thrown, operationally, into a state of survival mode. Indeed, the biological reason that unpleasant emotions become triggered within us in the first place is to alert us that our survival may be at risk, and to motivate appropriate action to address that risk.”-- Psychology TodayMatthew 5:43-48Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18"When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I have reverence for my parents, where I come from,I protect and cherish the sacred times of rest, I leave the corners of the field,A portion of my earnings for the poor and the stranger, I do not steal or lie and swear falsely,I pay my workers fairly and on time.When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I do not curse the deaf or Put obstacles before the blind,I am fair to rich and poor alike,I don’t gossip,I cannot ignore the violence in my world,I don’t hold grudges or hatred in my heart.When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I tell the truth even when it’s hard,I love my neighbor as I would myself,I keep separate what needs to be separate for its integrity,When I eat I am mindful of resources,I live in awe of holiness of our world,And the presence of the strangerAwakens compassion in me.And we are and should continually be obsessed with a faithful vision that God is in our midst and God is creating something out of nothing to transform lives."-Rabbi Shefa Gold, "Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land"Isaiah 6:1-7Isaiah 35:1-10John 7: 37-39Isaiah 58:5-121 Peter 1: 13-23To move out of survival to God’s creative force we take small steps:1.Surrender to God’s greatness, Here I am Lord. I will live for you. I surrender to your Lordship Jesus, to your plan for my life. I believe that you are greater than me and I am your servant, Jesus – you do not serve me, I serve you.2.Make intentional your margins of justice – carve them out.3.Begin to see people as God sees them – beautiful.4.Give hugs, high fives, compliments, mercy, tenderness – set up routines.5.Do something good for someone, every day – be altruistic.6.Pray that God would show you your purpose in this day – every day7.Seek shalom for others, their well being above your own.

“One of our key design principles is that we’re built to be triggered into survival mode whenever our survival is perceived to be at significant risk. Survival mode, however, isn’t only an overt state of fear, or the primal terror of being torn apart by a jaguar or grizzly bear. Whenever we feel any kind of pain or emotional distress – whether it’s self-pity, for example, or guilt, or shame – we’re thrown, operationally, into a state of survival mode. Indeed, the biological reason that unpleasant emotions become triggered within us in the first place is to alert us that our survival may be at risk, and to motivate appropriate action to address that risk.”-- Psychology TodayMatthew 5:43-48Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18"When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I have reverence for my parents, where I come from,I protect and cherish the sacred times of rest, I leave the corners of the field,A portion of my earnings for the poor and the stranger, I do not steal or lie and swear falsely,I pay my workers fairly and on time.When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I do not curse the deaf or Put obstacles before the blind,I am fair to rich and poor alike,I don’t gossip,I cannot ignore the violence in my world,I don’t hold grudges or hatred in my heart.When I am connected to that divine core of holiness, then:I tell the truth even when it’s hard,I love my neighbor as I would myself,I keep separate what needs to be separate for its integrity,When I eat I am mindful of resources,I live in awe of holiness of our world,And the presence of the strangerAwakens compassion in me.And we are and should continually be obsessed with a faithful vision that God is in our midst and God is creating something out of nothing to transform lives."-Rabbi Shefa Gold, "Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land"Isaiah 6:1-7Isaiah 35:1-10John 7: 37-39Isaiah 58:5-121 Peter 1: 13-23To move out of survival to God’s creative force we take small steps:1.Surrender to God’s greatness, Here I am Lord. I will live for you. I surrender to your Lordship Jesus, to your plan for my life. I believe that you are greater than me and I am your servant, Jesus – you do not serve me, I serve you.2.Make intentional your margins of justice – carve them out.3.Begin to see people as God sees them – beautiful.4.Give hugs, high fives, compliments, mercy, tenderness – set up routines.5.Do something good for someone, every day – be altruistic.6.Pray that God would show you your purpose in this day – every day7.Seek shalom for others, their well being above your own.