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American fllag, Fox News, Pledge of Allegience, War heroes
What are examples of national myths?
A man-made construct produced by a community, primarily living in close proximity, that share values rooted in the tasks of meeting needs presented to them, initially by their environment, often tacit in its emergence, but eventually dominates parochial perspectives and determines a shared ethic.
What is culture?
Jesus' claim as being the evidence for the validity of his prophetic ministry
What is the restoration and liberation of people?
Doing the right thing according to what God expects
What is Righteousness?
Projected through the team’s ethical behavior, enforcing moral principles subject to God’s desire for the preservation of life
What is a holy culture?
Ideas implemented to enculturate by ‘maintaining order’ and ensuring the inteintions/visions of a nations’ patriarchs
What are national myths?
A culture’s set of values that encompass their understanding of the difference between right and wrong, good and evil
What are ethics?
The taste/flavor that these prophetic people is supposed to have is used by Jesus with this metaphor and scripture
What is the ‘salt’ metaphor in Matt 5.13?
Better understood as Ideals
What are ideologies?
A transformative agent to the world at large, through their articulation of revelation in the form of education and the re-telling of stories.
What is a prophetic movement?
The idea that the nation has arrived and is ready to build its legacy
What is landedness?
achieved through an education of the heart/mind of God as revealed through his Torah (direction/instruction/law)
What is holiness?
Paul’s argument that we receive the things of God through the Spirit of God, which is not discernible by the wisdom of men.
What is 1 Cor 2:6-13?
Unexamined
What is tacit?
The activity of the prophetic movement to tear down state-driven projected realities
What is deconstruction
God’s people will not identify their citizenship as ‘of this world’, but will live according to the rule/law of God, showing the law of their God as superior to the law of men.
What does it mean to be “a people within a people”?
Traces the trail of the historical paradigm shift taking place in the world
What is a movement?
Culture contributes to our perception of right and wrong. This refers to the category of the study of...
What is Ethics?
a movement that is relevant right now, speaking to issues of the current historical moment
What is a subversive movement?
“Top down” systems that exploit the majority for the benefit of the minority.
What is the pyramid model?
A prophetic/apostolic community that cannot be understood or explained independent of spirituality produced by biblical literacy.
What is a theological phenomenon
Beginning with the issue and working backward to find the root cause
What is Derivative Thinking?
The formula we get from Matthew 6:36 in regards to our sustenance and needs
Culture contributes to our perception of right and wrong. This refers to the category of the study of...
What is Ethics?
When evaluating whether something is a cultural issue vs. a holiness issue, this is the overarching rule to consider.
What is the Preservation of life?