Everybody wants to live in a Good Place
God intends for us to live in a Good Place. Not everybody lives in a Good Place. Even when we live in a pretty good place, we still want better. One characteristic of life in a Good Place: helping others make their places better. We can look at our efforts to build up Good Places in three areas: acting in Communities , acting as Individuals . acting in Organizations , In our Communities we can develop an explicit, comprehen- sive vision of our Good Place then work together intentionally to build it up. As Individuals we can seek and allow God’s continuing creation in us and, through us, in the world. God’s continuing creation in our hearts produces love for God, others, and ourselves. God’s continuing creation through our lives in the world produces justice, peace, and health (Shalom). The God of all love, beauty, wisdom, and power offers to continue creating in and through us. The world is filled with tools that God uses for this continuing creation. We can seek out these tools in the world and allow God to use them in and through our lives to continue creating hearts of love in us and justice, peace, and health in the world. We can combine three types of activities in each of our Organizations : - an Economic activity that supports our living in the world as well as the other activities of the organization, - Development for members of the organization, with training for the economic activity usually coming first, followed by education then by other development activities, and - Community Engagement, how our work benefits others - both the work by which we earn our living as well as any other efforts that benefit others, whether we get paid for it or not.
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