Jan 16, Tue- Biblical Basis for Civil Rights

Next Quiz/Test: Today was your Quiz 6b: Learn to Discern
- Next Friday is your Unit 6 Test

Handouts: None given

Reminders:

- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2018
- Devotion 2 Presentations: Be ready for your presentation day!
- Devotion 3 Outline: Due March 13th. Re-read the instructions (this lists your Devotion 3 Book Choices). Learn from your previous ones & start this early & make it good!

Instructional Time: Unit 6: Psychology

Journal: Pick up & work through the paper below, "A Martin Luther King Jr. Day Reflection"

Civil Rights Discussion: For the rest of class, using our worksheet as a 'spring-board,' we discussed civil rights issues.

- 1) In the box to the right, explain how each of the verses to the left share that all people have equal value in God's eyes. 

- - Genesis 1:26–27; Colossians 3:11; Romans 3:22, 10:12

- To be afflicted or oppressed is to be caused to experience pain, suffering, or hardship.

- How does someone start to become afflicted and oppressed?

- - Sometimes uncontrollable life situations cause it (e.g. a disease)

- - Sometimes their own poor choice cause it (e.g. gambling)

- - Sometimes another person or group (even a society’s culture) will cause it (e.g. slavery)

- The Bible often summarize people who are oppressed & afflicted in three categories:

- - The Fatherless: Orphans, those whose parents have died

- - Widows: a woman whose husband has died

- - Foreigners: Internationals, those who have had, for some reason, to leave their country

- While these three categories are not the only ones who suffer, it was a list that summarized it for the Old Testament times. In our culture we could probably add several more categories to this list, for example: Unborn children, single mothers, the elderly who no one cares for, children of prisoners, families who can’t find employment, the homeless, etc…

- What should we do for these people?  As Martin Luther King Jr. quoted in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, God shares that we should “let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” (Amos 5:24 NIV). On the next page we’ll see more about God’s own view of these things & what He tells us to do.  

- 2) What do these verses share about what God does and how God feels about caring for the oppressed? 

- - Psalm 146:7–10; Deuteronomy 10:17–19

- 3) God is very clear on giving us general directions and specific examples on how to live out His heart for the afflicted.  What do these verse share about how we should treat people who are oppressed? 

- - Proverbs 31:8–9; Psalm 82:3; Isaiah 1:17; Micah 6:8; James 1:27

- So, what does this all mean for you?  

- - How can you practically live out God’s heart for those who are afflicted & oppressed?

- - Answers these questions in your Study Packet for the journal your teacher directs you to.