This document discusses creating environments where people can become lifelong followers of Christ. It emphasizes three values: we, word, and walk. For the value of "we," it discusses treating others like family according to biblical passages. It warns against enabling others and giving handouts instead of opportunities to serve. The document contrasts the "social good news" and "theological good news" and includes biblical quotes about acting with love through actions instead of just words.
12. Do not rebuke an older
man harshly, but exhort him as if he
were your father. Treat younger
men as brothers, older women as
mothers, and younger women as
sisters, with absolute purity.
I Timothy 5:1-16
18. But if a widow has children or
grandchildren, these should learn
first of all to put their religion into
practice by caring for their own
family vs 4
21. When people seek to fulfill their callings
by glorifying God in their work, praising
Him for their gifts and abilities, and
seeing both their efforts and its products
as an offering to Him, then work is an act
of worship to God.
24. If anyone has material possessions and
sees his brother in need but has no pity
on him, how can the love of God be in
him? Dear children, let us not love with
words or tongue but with actions and in
truth.
1 John 3:17
25. James 2:17
In the same way, faith by itself, if it is
not accompanied by action, is dead.