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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
A. Biblical Models
B. Non-Christian Models
C. Pastoral Spirituality
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
A. Biblical Models
Planted by Stream
Bearing Fruit
Prospers
Everything
Knowing
Loving
Doing
Communion
Community
Commission
Mary
Take Root Below
Martha
Bear Fruit Above
Isaiah 37:31
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
A. Biblical Models
Most Holy Place
The Holy Place
Bread = Word
Incense = Prayer
Light = Service
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
5 spiritual disciplines:
Every day
Study God’s Word
Meditate and Pray
Serve Others
Every Week
Be in Small Group
Be in Worship
A. Biblical Models
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
A. Biblical Models
Read God’s Word, Pray with devotion
Serve one another, Be love in motion.
That’s the way we grow everyday in the Lord.
And every week, we come together.
To worship Him, to be with friends,
It strengthens our faith on our way to heaven,
So we . . .
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
A. Biblical Models
1. The Pastoral Model
Genesis 13:12 “Abram lived in the land of Canaan,
while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and
pitched his tents near Sodom.”
2. The Sanctuary Model
Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they will call Jerusalem
The Throne of the LORD, and all nations will
gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the
LORD.
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
A. Biblical Models
3. The Faith-Based Model
John 4:22-24 Jesus declared, “Believe me,
woman, a time is coming when you will worship
the Father neither on this mountain nor in
Jerusalem. . . . 23 Yet a time is coming and has
now come when the true worshipers will worship
the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind
of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit,
and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in
truth.”
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
A. Biblical Models
4. The Mission-Based Model
Acts 18:9-12 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in
a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do
not be silent. 10 For I am with you, and no one is
going to attack and harm you, because I have
many people in this city.” 11 So Paul stayed for a
year and a half, teaching them the word of God.
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
A. Biblical Models
Genesis 13:12 “Abram lived in the land of
Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of
the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.”
Although the sanctuary was built in the
wilderness, it came to rest in the city of
Jerusalem. Discuss the challenges of
growing spirituality in the city.
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
B. Non-Christian Models
“While Christianity emphasizes doctrines
and teaching and puts great stock in creeds,
confessions and statements of beliefs,
Buddhism puts stress on the practice of
religion, and, in particular, meditation”
(Jon Dybdahl, Asian Adventist Seminary Studies
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
B. Non-Christian Models
“In traditional Buddhist countries, sincere
Buddhists are at times disturbed by
Christians who seem to them irreligious
because their lives are devoid of regular
times of worship and devotion.
(Jon Dybdahl, Asian Adventist Seminary Studies
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
B. Non-Christian Models
In this sense Buddhism challenges
Christianity to not just teach a series of
beliefs but lead people to experience “the
Divine, in a life-changing daily devotional
practice. In this case Buddhist devotion can
challenge activist Christians to keep their
connection with God alive.”
(Jon Dybdahl, Asian Adventist Seminary Studies
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
B. Non-Christian Models
Seventh-day Adventists can learn from the
spirituality of other religions in order to gain
an appreciation of their positive aspects,
provide a critique of its own practices and
construct a common ground on which to
foster a conversation about the teaching and
practice of a deeper and truer spirituality.
(Jon Dybdahl, Asian Adventist Seminary Studies
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
B. Non-Christian Models
Get in your groups and discuss
what the SDA church can learn
from the practices of Buddhism
or other religions.
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
Protecting your . . .
1. Time
2. Marriage
3. Eyes
4. Children
5. Members
C. Pastoral Spirituality
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4. Growing Spirituality in the City
Urban Church Ministry
AIIAS • July, 2004
Protecting your . . .
6. Health
7. Attitude
8. Influence
9. Money
10. Life
C. Pastoral Spirituality