Living for the Good of the City

Our Flow and Mission

Real-Time, Real Space, Real People

The Knowledge of God, Ourselves...and Others

Exile to Babylon (1-3)

Particular Inconveniences

• When, Where, and Who

Abandonment and Humiliation

Restoration in, of - not from - Babylon (4-7)

All In for the Long Haul

• Gen 1:28, 9:1

An Eye for Beauty

God Sees and Seeks Beauty from Brokenness

Seeking the God �" and good �" of the city

Community Meditation Questions

Growing in Knowledge

• Discuss how living for the good of the city welcomes a truer knowledge of God, ourselves, and others.
• Who sent/took away Israel into exile? Nebuchadnezzar? God? Are our answers consistent with our attitudes towards difficult times, places, and people?

Feeling Life Deeply

• Which word best describes our MC’s involvement with our particular city - engaged, burdened, ignorant, angry, or apathetic? What do our answers reveal?

Living with Courage

• To live for the good of the city means that we seek God for him to be the redeemer of ______ (our MC, neighborhood, campus, workplace). Start praying with others and planning on ways to live for the good of ______.