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Grounding your community in core beliefs, branching out into the unknown<\/h2>\n

This post is intended to share resources with those who participated in our workshop on February 5, 2021 at the ELCA Youth Ministry Network’s Extravaganza. In this post you will find:<\/p>\n

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  1. Notes taken during our workshop on 02\/05\/2021<\/li>\n
  2. The video played at the beginning of our workshop<\/li>\n
  3. A lesson plan to use in your home congregation<\/li>\n
  4. The videos containing our partner congregations’ stories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Workshop Description<\/h3>\n

    Core theological convictions should not be walls that prevent engagement with our neighbors. Instead, they can provide a blueprint for change and engagement across differences. This workshop helps participants identify core theological convictions and imagine they can be held loosely to allow for creative change in a shifting context. Case studies from congregations involved in Augsburg University’s Riverside Innovation Hub will help us see how this can be done. <\/span><\/p>\n

    It is important to acknowledge the title of this workshop is inspired by a document that has become very important to our work. “Rooted and Open: The Common Calling of ELCA Colleges and Universities”<\/a> lays out a vision for the ELCA colleges and universities as institutions rooted in the Lutheran tradition and boldly open to a changing world. We think it’s worth the read and can serve as another case study of how to hold tradition loosely in a way that generates innovation for the sake of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Key Take-away<\/span><\/h4>\n

    Clarity on what your core theological convictions are and ideas for how these convictions can help them think theologically about ministry and creative change in a shifting context.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Workshop Notes<\/h3>\n

    These are the notes we generated together during our workshop on 02\/05\/2021.<\/p>\n

    Theological claims about who God is . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Where do we find these claims in scripture?<\/h4>\n

    Love- John 1, John 3:16.\u00a0 \u00a0 Creator-John 1, Genesis\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Forgiveness-Romans 8.\u00a0 \u00a0 Love – Love each other as I have loved you. – John.\u00a0 \u00a0 God is love. – 1 John.\u00a0 \u00a0 Forgiveness – \u201cHow many times?\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Creator – Genesis story.\u00a0 \u00a0 Mother – Mother hen from Psalms.\u00a0 \u00a0 Grace\/Forgiveness – Prodigal Son.\u00a0 \u00a0 Mother\/Parent – Jesus’ birth.\u00a0 \u00a0 Transformer – Water to wine.\u00a0 \u00a0 Story of Exodus.\u00a0 \u00a0 Creator with purpose!\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bigger than anything that comes across our way (Romans 8:31 for reference).\u00a0 \u00a0 Purposeful, eternal withstanding time (psalms).\u00a0 \u00a0 Creation story.\u00a0 \u00a0 Pentecost.\u00a0 \u00a0 John 3:16.\u00a0 \u00a0 Ephesians 2:8.\u00a0 \u00a0 Woman at the Well.\u00a0 \u00a0 Forgiveness – Matthew 18:21.\u00a0 \u00a0 Creation \u2013 Genesis.\u00a0 \u00a0 God is love – love each other as I have loved you – John Chapter 1.\u00a0 Creation.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jonah.\u00a0 \u00a0 Saul\/Paul.\u00a0 \u00a0 1 John.\u00a0 \u00a0 Revelation.\u00a0 \u00a0 New Heaven\/New Earth<\/p>\n

    Theological claims about what God does . . .<\/h4>\n

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    Where do we find these claims in scripture?<\/h4>\n

    Loves – God continues to pursue even when we screw up, and the whole story.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Forgives – Jesus.\u00a0 \u00a0 Heals – Someone touches Jesus.\u00a0 \u00a0 Relationship – Adam and eve as God\u2019s beginning of relationship with humankind, and continues to pursue through the whole thing.\u00a0 \u00a0 Pursue – Jonah, and the prophets.\u00a0 \u00a0 Transforms – God transforms how God pursue us because we keep needing different ways to\u00a0 be pursued.\u00a0 \u00a0 Moves – The spirit moves over the water.\u00a0 \u00a0 Heals – Simon’s mother in law, the blind man, Lazarus, the centurian, the woman touching the hem of Jesus’ cloak, Talitha come, baptism (healing of sins – birth of new life), even to the least of these.\u00a0 \u00a0 feeding stories, creation, John 1, spirit stories,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0God loves, sees, chooses unlikely people: sees tax collectors for worth apart from reputation, sees thief on the cross for worth apart from conviction, raises up Moses who is hesitant to lead, Jesus heals bent over woman.\u00a0 \u00a0 Forgives – Woman to be Stoned for Adultery – John 8:1-11.\u00a0 \u00a0 Helper – Moses Call Exodus 3 and Wilderness Wonderings.\u00a0 \u00a0 Accompanies – Road to Emmaus – Luke 24: 13-35,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Partner – Covenant Language esp. with Abraham and Sarah.<\/p>\n

    Theological claims about the human’s role in creation . . .<\/h4>\n

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    Where do we find these claims in scripture?<\/h4>\n

    Creation story.\u00a0 \u00a0 God cares for the sparrows and the lilies (Matthew).\u00a0 \u00a0 OT laws about how to structure farms to help others.\u00a0 \u00a0 Any story where Jesu broke down walls that divide people (reaching out to women, children, lepers, Samaritans, outcasts, etc.).\u00a0 \u00a0 Good Shepherd.\u00a0 \u00a0 Isaiah 58 \u2013 feed the hungry.\u00a0 \u00a0 Care\/Stewardship – Genesis. (e.g. Gen. 2:15- \u201cThe LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Co-creators – Creation story, Adam naming animals.\u00a0 \u00a0 Stories of mothers – Mary.\u00a0 \u00a0 Neighbor – Good Sam. Story.\u00a0 \u00a0 Steward – Genesis 1.\u00a0 \u00a0 Messenger – \u201cGo therefore and make disciples”.\u00a0 \u00a0 care for creation in Garden of Eden, love one another, go forth and multiply, Paul plants and God waters.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Adam and eve story.\u00a0 \u00a0 7-day creation.\u00a0 \u00a0 Jesus Parables of the talents.\u00a0 \u00a0 Good steward who does their job, bad stewards who kills and steals.\u00a0 \u00a0 Foot washing story.\u00a0 \u00a0 Love your neighbor command.\u00a0 \u00a0 Good Samaritan.\u00a0 \u00a0 Time with people who are outcasts stories.\u00a0 \u00a0 Persistent widow.\u00a0 \u00a0 Ruth and Naomi.\u00a0 \u00a0 Woman with the anointing perfume.\u00a0 \u00a0 Feeding of 5000.\u00a0 \u00a0 Fish and nets.\u00a0 \u00a0 Psalms.\u00a0 \u00a0 Ethiopian Eunuch<\/p>\n

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    Intro Video<\/h3>\n

    This is the 10-minute video we used at the beginning of our workshop. It introduces the importance of thinking theologically about ministry. The ability to think theologically in your own location, in ways that are unique to that location and this time is an important and practical skill we must develop.<\/p>\n