Jubilee Night Discussion

When a bad guy threaten to kill your children or family, can you praise the guy?
(Refer Roman Chap13:17-21
Do not repay anyone evil for evil.
Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.
IF it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
Do not take "Revenge", but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written:
"It is mine to AVENGE; I will REPAY." says the Lord.
On the Contrary:
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him:
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.)

Here is the answer. However, what if the bad guy is a "Psycopath" and the bad guy could never feel guilty or sympathy instead, the bad guy only feels satisfaction in murdering "innocent" people.
Do I have to stay and just depend on God , watching the bad guy killing my children or family?
OF course, I cannot determine whether the bad guy is a Psychopath or not.
Of course, I can die for him and let the judge to my God.
I am pretty OK, but I cannot watch someone be killed in front of my eye.
Revenge or I would say "Protection" is inevitable, I guess.

Here is my question, I cannot solve this.
Friends, Can you share your wisdom?

Jubilee 2009 - Break Session 2 Technology

4. Saturday Break Session2
topic: consolidation of technology and spirituality by Jack swearangen
Wii is used as a rehap device (electron phalography? emotion recognition)
Mindflex: it control movements of objects by electrical device in brain
Technological vs. Socialogical vs Biblical
Social & spiritual impacts of surveilance; it speed up social application

Biblical requires progressive transformation
Bring healing, creation->Fall->redemption

Technology Assessment: Spiritual/Environmental/Social/Psychological("Separation")
1)Spiritual: humans from God
2)Environmental: humans from culture
3)Social: humans from other humans
4)Psychological: humans from themselves

Redemption: Substantial 4-fold healing
Consummution(?) In the book "Invisible hand"
Technological solution introduces new problems

Healing: Aesthetic/Social/Spiritual/Environmental
We want to be nor Technophobia(phobia:fear) nor Technophilla(Philla:love)
But we want to develop the culture and restore Salome in the God's world

Jubilee 2009- Singleness and Spirituality

1. Breaksession1 Singleness and Spirituality by Abbie Smith
Currently, single is regraded as "impartiality" in the church.

But church is a body of Christ. (Corinthians 고린도전서 ch12: 12-27), each part of the body is each human being, every part is important and unified to embody, union of the father, life of the body.

Sexuality, literally means "being a man/woman" .There is no need of fear or to defeat sexuality.
Human being has,in nature, a longing or the desire of hug, sleep, eat, thirst and connect(related).
Nothing is wring with singleness.

However, I could not solve my own question. What about the loneliness?
I think "loneliness" is an eternal friend of human being, I mean, "loneliness" is inevitable feeling even though one can marry or have children. I saw many lonely married couples. Human, in nature, feels lonely.... always.
However, how can I embrace the "loneliness" for my life? ( I don't want to say "overcome" , I'd rather say "embrace")
This is the first question I could not solve.

Whenever I feel loneliness, I want to make a phone call to someone and then I open the cell phone and look up my phone lists but I don't have any one to call.
Just a few minute talk ,whatever the topic is, is enough for those times.
But I don't want to express my feeling to friends in order not to infect my negative feeling to them and I can't pray because I think those feelings are too minor to talk to the God.

I may want just a few-minutes talk or just hanging out for a couple of time or just one hug. But nothing is happened always, instead I get to bed and fall to sleep... always.

Humans are lonely. I know,
God is our friend. I know,
But sometimes I miss human's voice or shoulder. Is it bad or is it good?
Still I cannot solve this.

Jubilee 2009

1. Friday General Session 1
ex) The city of angel: to be a human in God's world is thankful .
Thanksgiving gratitude=belief vs. Ingratitude/unbelief
How to live thankfully,
Thank you God.

2.Friday General Session2
Perception of popular culture by Gave Lyons
ex) Film "Saved"
Survey of perception of Christianity shows people's prejudice about christian. We can say viewpoints by non-christian are as bellows.
- judgmental
- Hypocritical
- Get saved (Converting others)
- Sheltered
- too political

These are misled, mistaken:
- separation from the culture
- uncritical embrace of modernism
We'd better focus on "How to live(Convergence)" by including "Culture"

We have to transform these images; We become a Christian who is:
- GRACEFUL
- relational
- Solution oriented (e.g. His own sun had a "down syndrom", he initiated a happy life of "down syndrom" children to prohibit from being aborted. Because most of "down syndrom"child are not born due to abortion. He gaved the parents a hope and a wisdom.

3. Friday General Session3
Culture maker Story1 "Kiva" by Jesicca
Kiva's business model is basically Micro finance, Micro loan based model.
Kiva basically provides a internet Market place between "Internet loaner" and "Micro finance investment Partner", however "Kiva" is more focusing on building MFI network by connecting human to human network. Their strategy is briefly, "focus on Individual" and "good word" by internet users. For example, internet users created Kivapedia and office in Secondlife for Kiva.

1. Saturday general session1
Roman ch.7
Sin is a destructive power, seductive force against love of father.

2. Saturday General session2
Cultural Maker Story 2 - Bill Strickland
He gave a life, hope and spirit to Pittsburgh Southside District Kids (Most of them are too poor to get good education, or barely educated, and do not have any jobs)
He designed and developed a very special school which is surrounded by bright sunlights, flowers and fountains(water).
He inspired "enthusiasm" from Poor kids.
His book: Make Impossible Possible.

3. Saturday General Session3
Cultural Maker Story 3
Posture(Cultivate/Create) vs. Gesture(Condemn/Critique/Copy/Consume)

3. Saturday Break Session3
Excelling in the Education you wanted: A faith and Culture Devotional by Kelly Kullberg and David Kullberg
John ch.17:03, true vine and root , sustainable tree

4.Saturday Night
-"Become a NEW neighbor"
We'd better care for relationship, love each other.
All of us are equal.
We must love our neighbors as OURSELVES.

-Reconcile all things , a peace and healing
-vocation/calling: Listen to THE CALL
-Reorder Love/Lies -->heartsonmind.com

-God is a good communicator and our good friend.
= loneliness is inevitable.

5.Small things over and over again makes big difference.
How many hours will it take ? -10,000 hours
- 1hours/day will take 10years, 2 hours will take 15years and 8hours/day will take 4 years.
- Masters require discipline, Discipline requires TIME.
- My 10,000 hours can make NEW capacity

6. Break Session 4: Living Deep in a Shallow world by emmaus@streets.org
1) How do I live --> Mica 3:18
-live justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God
2) Who am I called to show mercy?
3) How do I walk humbly with God

7. Sunday Morning: Every Square Inch by Abraham Kiper
Kingdom is not coming yet but as a witness of coming his kingdom, we must fortaste (gives a taste) for coming life of the kingdom of the God
- Community of generosity, simplicity , and truth

8. Wrap up
1) What is one thing you start doing?
(Think small)
2) What is one thing you stop doing?

Jubilee 2009 @ Pittsburgh Westin

Brief Overview

I asked some questions thru Jubilee workshop and solved some of them and had been rethinking still.

One thing I start doing from now on is to read spiritual books and articles "every day".
So far, I just depended upon Tuesday Bible Study and Sunday Church service.
But I should absorb more precious words but with my heart not with by my brain.
I do want to have more spiritual time for myself and social time for my neighbor.

One thing I stop doing from now on is to do meaningless internet surfing and meaningless killing time any more.
My time was "passed" meaninglessly just because I don't want to feel lonely or curious about Korean news, especially TV show, actors' and actress's gossips and dead news. But I didn't focus on myself too much. It was meaningless time.
I don't want to exhaust myself physically and emotionally any more.

Instead, I do want to have my 10,000 hours for myself , for my neighbor and for better world from now on.
This is what I earned and what I decided from Jubilee 2009.

I realized (or I can say restored myself), I am not "nothing", I can do "something" for myself, for my neighbor and for my glorious kingdom of my Lord, my God even though I am a student but I have time, passion, energy, sympathy and my God in my heart. I can do and I can transform the future someday or from now on.

This is what I realized and what I heard from my God in Jubilee 2009.
I am so blessed, and I love Jesus Christ so much.