MATTHEW HARRISON

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• MATTHEW HARRISON
• World Relief and Human Care

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• One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Lets play, Who said it?

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said
• In the first place the congregation should
  do everything in its power to see to it that its
  pastor has food, clothing, and a home for himself
  and his family Moreover that the pastor has
  sufficient means to exercise hospitality. (See I
  Tim. 32)

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said it?
• Luther
• Zwingli
• Walther
• Loehe

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said
• The congregation shall also provide food,
  clothing, habitation, and all other necessities
  for the poor, widows, orphans, aged, and
  invalids (2 Thess. 311-12). The congregation
  shall also care for those who suffer distress
  through special calamities like fire, famine,
  scarcity, robbery, and so forth (2 Cor. 813-14
  I Cor. 1226) For this purpose the congregation
  shall appoint special almoners (Acts 61-7).

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said it?
• Loehe
• Grabau
• Walther
• Chemnitz

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said
• Every town should support its own poor
  But there must be a manager or administrator who
  would know all the poor and what they need, and
  tell this to the council or the pastor

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said it?
• Loehe
• Walther
• Luther
• Chemnitz

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said
• Those who for a long time have served
  faithfully in the holy ministry and who now,
  because of old age and infirmity, can no longer
  minister, we are in duty bound to support If the
  OT the aged Levites were relieved from their
  service, but kept and supported, why should not
  we Christians show the same kindness to the aged
  emeriti, our pastors and ministers, who deserve
  this well? It certainly would be great and
  atrocious ingratitude to disown them in their old
  age and let them starve like old horses or dogs,
  as this happens now and then with great offense.

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said it?
• Luther
• Walther
• Chemnitz
• The Emeritus in your congregation

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said
• A congregation shall see to it that its members
  in their sickness are not without the necessary
  help, daily and nightly nursing and comfort.
  (Matt 2536 I was sick, and ye visited me.)

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said it?
• Walther
• Wyneken
• Schwan
• Pieper

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said
• A congregation shall see to it that every
  member, even the poorest, be given a decent,
  honorable, and Christian burial. (Matt. 1412
  And his Johns disciples came and took up the
  body and buried it.)

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said it?
• Dr. James Kennedy
• Walther
• Luther
• Pieper

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said
• For the adequate care of the poor,
  widows, orphans, aged, invalids, sick, and the
  like, the congregation shall elect one or more
  persons who are to serve as almoners and see to
  it that no one is overlooked in the matter of
  necessary support and help (Rom. 128 He that
  giveth, let him do it with simplicity he that
  ruleth, with diligence he that sheweth mercy,
  with cheerfulness. Cp. Acts 61-7 I Tim.
  38-13).

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said it?
• Wenthe
• Meyer
• Freitag
• Diekelmann

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said
• A bishop is an official of God who is to
  distribute the divine and spiritual gifts, preach
  the Gospel, and provide the people with the Word
  of God. He must have helpers or deacons who are
  to serve the congregation by keeping record of
  all poor people, providing for their needs from
  the congregations funds, visiting the sick...

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Who said it?
• Walther
• Luther
• Loehe
• Oliver Harms

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Answer All quotes are from Walthers Proper
  Form of the Christian Congregation.

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Why Mission and MERCY toward the Ablaze!
  goals?

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Mercy is about who we are in Christ (I John
  316-18)
• Mercy is who God is in Christ (Luke 636 I John
  48)
• Mercy in mission marks the church at its
  missional best! (Acts 6 the Jerusalem
  collection)

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!
Why the LCMS? Why now?
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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• The open and opening opportunities are
  unprecedented!
• Missouris gift is in demand clear confession of
  the Gospel!
• Missouri has worldwide capacity.

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!
Why the circuit counselors?
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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• All martyria is local! (The answers to
  mission challenges are local.)
• Koinonia is globally local! (This global
  fellowship of faith is lived locally Luther
  on the Sacrament of the Altar, 1519.)

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One Mission Vision Ablaze! with MERCY!

• Diakonia begins at home! (The churchs corporate
  life of missional mercy is lived locally.)
• Missional stewardship is filled with mercy, and
  moves from local to global! (II Cor. 8-9)

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• LCMS World Relief Human Care is the Synods
  mercy arm.

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