3 Questions – Scripture Study

Today in our Urban Youth Ministry Certificate training, the students and faculty together came up with a great way to look at Scripture from a perspective that really allows for folks who are marginalized to identify with and see themselves in the passage (see my blog from Tuesday for more on this “theology from below”).  They came up with 3 questions:

1.  Where is the pain?

2.  Where is the power?  In other words, who has power in the passage and who doesn’t, and how does that affect them?

3.  Where is the praise?  In other words, where is the gospel in the passage?

I love, love, love this.  I love its honesty and authenticity and it was so fun to see youth workers dive into Biblical texts in new ways using these three questions.

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