Economic discipleship: practicing the King’s economy in your church with Michael Rhodes (WEBINAR RECORDINGS)
4 webinar recordings. Churches and individual Christians are looking for ways to practice economic discipleship, but it's hard to make progress when we are blind to our own entanglement in our culture's idolatrous economic beliefs and practices.
Description
This online teaching series with Carey’s new Old Testament lecturer: Dr Michael Rhodes is based on the book he co-authored with Robby Holt and Brian Fikkert in 2018:
Practicing the King's Economy : Honoring Jesus in How We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and Give.
About the book:
The church in the West is rediscovering the fact that God cares deeply for the poor. More and more, churches and individual Christians are looking for ways to practice economic discipleship, but it's hard to make progress when we are blind to our own entanglement in our culture's idolatrous economic beliefs and practices.
Practicing the King's Economy cuts through much confusion and invites Christians to take their place within the biblical story of the "King Jesus Economy." Through eye-opening true stories of economic discipleship in action, and with a solid exploration of six key biblical themes, the authors offer practical ways for God's people to earn, invest, spend, compensate, save, share, and give in ways that embody God's love and provision for the world.
In this online teaching series, there are 4 one-hour webinars , with a reading plan that follows through the book (participants need to arrange their own copy of the book, eg: from The Book Depository). In the book are various practices to put into action, and participants will be encouraged to go out and try one of these practices
There will be a particular emphasis and appreciation for participants who are leading churches (pastors, ministers, priests…), and how practicing the king’s economy may become part of the culture of your local church.
Webinar 1
Economic Discipleship: Practicing the King's Economy in Occupied Territory
Webinar 2
Becoming the Potlucking People of God: The Community Key
Webinar 3
No Poor Among You: The Work and Equity Key
Webinar 4
Going with the Grain of the Universe: The Creation Care and Rest Key
Presenter
Dr Michael Rhodes is a lecturer in Old Testament at Carey Baptist College. Michael’s passion is to help the church hear and respond to Scripture’s call to embody God’s justice and mercy on behalf of the marginalized. This passion inspired Michael and his wife Rebecca’s decision to live, work, and worship in an economically impoverished community for the ten years prior to his coming to Carey in 2021. Interest in how the church might become a community of justice and mercy also fueled Michael’s dissertation research on moral formation and economic ethics in biblical meals, as well as his current research project on moral formation for justice in Scripture. Michael is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
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