Q10 – Kingdom Relationships
Title: Kingdom Relationships – Working Through Our Reconciliation
Workbook Summary: In this tenth workbook, groups explore the relationships at the center of Missio Dei. These include our relationship with God, the self, our neighbor and the world around us. It includes conversations and exercises on relationships, the disciples, the pharisees, reconciliation, authority, women, the poor and the oppressed, and more.
It include leadership instructions, reflection questions, teachings, group discussion questions, exercises, assignments, and suggested materials to use during the quarter.
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Reading Map:
10.01 – Stories – Family: This teaching explores the first relationship in Missio Dei, our relationship with the Trinity: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is this relationship that sets the foundation for our dignity and understanding of relationship. It includes a breakdown and understanding of what roles each part of the Trinity plays in our lives.
10.02 – Stories – You: This teaching explores the tension of the self. What does Jesus mean when He says deny the self and love our neighbor as ourselves at the same time? And more importantly, how do we step into restoration of the soul, embrace our dignity, and find our new identities?
10.03 – Stories – Missionary: This teaching explores the third and fourth relationships with our neighbors and the world around us. These are the people that are right next to us or around the world. Missio Dei calls us to bring reconciliation and love to these relationships.
10.04 – Stories – Disciple: This teaching explores the relationship Jesus had with the disciples. These were the people who chose to put it all on the line. They engaged mission and help define what it meant to follow Jesus. And from them we learn our possibility, our humanity, and also our response to failure.
10.05 – Stories – Lifted: This teaching explores Jesus’ relationship with friends. His friendship with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus allows us to explore the role of trust in close relationships. It allows us to see the human side of Jesus. Jesus took risks with His friends that were unique. And in these risks Mary, Martha, and Lazarus got to participate in one of the most powerful experiences in the kingdom.
10.06 – Stories – Legalist: This teaching explores the relationship Jesus had with the Pharisees who were extremely diligent but missed the point. In taking the posture of “Convince Me” they missed the very presence of God and the possibility of participating in what they truly desired.
10.07 – Work – Reconciliation: This week explores the concepts of the shadow of death, the walls we create in our own lives that keep us from healthy relationships, and the need for reconciliation in our lives.
10.08 – Stories – Can’t: This teaching explores the role of authority and permission in our lives. Jesus understood that who was in authority was deeply important. And unless we grasp the power of our authority over the enemy, we will always be living subject that that enemy and its lies.
10.09 – Stories – Object: This teaching explores the relationship Jesus had with women. One of his central acts was restoring the dignity of women and helping transcend how we interact in relationship. He went beyond the common responses that are rooted in the curse.
10.10 – Stories – Flower: The teaching explores Jesus’ relationship with the poor and the oppressed. The kingdom always called those who followed to seek out the poor and oppressed as a way of restoring both parties dignity. It called into question the class system and invites us to participate in an alternative way of living.
10.11 – Stories – Micro-Manage: This teaching explores the concept of empire, which is humanities drive to establish control over our neighbors. Yet we were never meant for empire or to rule over each other. Jesus invites us to participate in His kingdom and reveal a different way of love.