The Repairers
of the Breach II: Poor Champions
Study Guide and Supplemental Links
Two key words in today's teaching:
Orthodoxy: "____________ _____________"
Orthopraxy: "____________ _______________"
Orthodoxy is _______________ the truth.
Orthopraxy is ______________ the truth.
Do you suppose this is our problem as a community of faith?
We _________ the truth—and we ________ it.
But do we ________ the truth—and do we _________ it?Three stories where God gets very angry:
Story #1—Matthew 21:12-16
Jeremiah 7:4
Isaiah 56:7
- ________________ without ______________
- They have the ______ of worship right—but they're wrong about the _______ of worship.
Story #2—Matthew 7:21-23
- ________________ without ______________
- It could be they have the ______ of worship right—but they're wrong about the _______ of worship.
Story #3—Matthew 25:31-46
- _________________ over ________________
- Right ____________ supercedes right ___________ .
- When the nations are gathered before [Christ], there will be but two classes, and their eternal destiny will be determined by what they have done or have neglected to do for Him in the person of the poor and suffering." Desire of Ages 637
Isaiah 58:1, 3, 5 and 6, 7, 10.
- I love your _______________ —but I am missing your ______________ !
- I love you _____________ the truth—but I need you ___________ the truth!
- You are ______________ champions, until you champion the ___________ .
- Want to prove your ____________ for me? Then demonstrate your __________________ for them.
It is one of the stunning truths about God in Holy Scripture: He lives night and day in ____________ with the poor:
- Job 29:12,13,15,16
- Job 30:25
- Deuteronomy 15:11
- Proverbs 19:17
- Proverbs 17:5
- Proverbs 14: 31
- Isaiah 58
- Jesus:
- He chose "nondestitute poverty as a way of life" Viv Grigg (Companion to the Poor, Cry of the Urban Poor)
- "Foxes have dens, birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
- Matthew 25: "Inasmuch as you have done it to the least of these, My brothers and My sisters—the hungry, the poor, the naked, the sick, the imprisoned—you have done it to Me."
The Rich, the Poor, and the Bible, Conrad Boemer, p.70
Desire of Ages, Ellen White, p. 640"And where I am [with the poor], there will you be also."
Answers: right thinking; right practicing; knowing; showing; have, know; live, show; Orthodoxy, orthopraxy; Day, way; Orthopraxy, orthodoxy; way, Day; Orthopraxy, orthodoxy; behavior, belief; orthodoxy, orthopraxy; knowing, showing; poor, poor; passion, compassion; solidarity.