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Get Out! Discovering Your Role as the Salt of the Earth

Explore different church approaches to community involvement: one that excludes, one that leads, and one that partners with the community. Engage with the concepts of responsibility, partnership, and relationship-building through a unique baking analogy.

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Get Out! Discovering Your Role as the Salt of the Earth

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  1. Get Out!

  2. “For you are the salt of the earth. . . .” (Matthew 5:13).

  3. Which loaf do you prefer?

  4. Salt Is Not the Whole Recipe

  5. Which Church is Yours? • The Church in the City (Community) • Refers to location. • Members are not from the community. • Little or no involvement in the community. Robert C. Linthicum, Empowering the Poor: Community Organizing Among the City’s ‘Rag, Tag, and Bobtail.’ (Monrovia, CA: MARC Publications, 1991), pp. 21-30.

  6. “You are the salt of the earth...” (Matthew 5:13, NIV). GET OUT!

  7. Which Church is Yours? 2. The Churchtothe City (Community) • Sense of responsibility to do something for the community. • Decides unilaterally what the community needs. (Internal “Crystal balling”) • Invites the community to participate.

  8. “You are the salt of the earth...” (Matthew 5:13, NIV). MEET PEOPLE – ASK!

  9. Which Church is Yours? 3. The Church with the City (Community) • Sees mission to the community as a partnership. • Discovers from the community the burning issues. • Brings the ministry of the church out into the community. • Nurtures personal relationships with individuals in the community.

  10. “You are the salt of the earth...” (Matthew 5:13, NIV). MIX IN! (MINGLE WITH A MISSION)

  11. Banana Breadville Ingredients(The Church with the Community) 1 cup sugar (Community businesses ) ½ cup butter (Health care/hospitals) 2 eggs, well beaten (Government) 3 T. sour cream (Homes) 3 lg. ripe bananas, mashed (Police Department) 1 tsp. vanilla (Social services) 1 cup chopped walnuts (Rotary club) 1 tsp. salt (Churches) 1 tsp. soda (Local schools) 2 cups flour (Fire Department)

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