The Contemporary Signs of the

Kingdom of God
OBJECTIVES
• DOCTRINE: Explain how our significant relationships with our family,
community, and the Church are contemporary signs of the Kingdom
of God.

MORALS: Propose effective ways that will help make the signs of God’s
Kingdom known and appreciated in our world today.

WORSHIP: Praise and thank God for accompanying us in becoming

instruments of His love to build His kingdom on earth.
Recall your most recent RELATIONSHIPS EXPERIENCES REALIZATIONS

experiences to answer
Family
briefly the questions.
Friends
• What is your most
unforgettable or happiest
moment with the School
Community
following groups of
people? Outside
Community( Barr
io/Village)
• What are your
realizations after having Church

reflected upon them?

Please proceed to
short sharing of
your answer
 All of us have
beautiful and
meaningful
experiences with
our family, friends,
community, and the
Church.
 These
experiences
teach us the
possibility of
making God’s
Kingdom grow
in its fullness.
 How do we make
our relationships
with our family,
friends, and the
Church visible
and active signs of
God’s Kingdom on
earth?
 The Early
Christians: Model
of Christian
Community
The faith the early Christians
lived out is the kind of faith
that we must endeavor. …our believing

This Christian faith

involves our whole being - …our doing

…our praying
These three are the essential dimensions of Christian faith
touching every part of our being:

Our minds (believing) Our wills (doing)

Our hearts (trusting)

Putting it technically, Christian faith includes inseparably

Doctrine Our knowing, understanding, and

believing the truths of our faith

Morals Our concrete living out of faith in

loving service to all
Worship Our entrusting to God all our
aspirations, disappointments, joys and
pains in life.
 Ideological Activism
(no prayer)

https://visuwords.com/orthodoxy

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ati Orthopraxis [A OR
DO gm 3 Sources of
cti AL
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[ Christian FAith ]
Scripture, Tradition
Human
Experience

Pious Dogmatism WORSHIP (Sacraments) Idealistic Activism

[ Ritualism]
(no praxis) (no doctrinal base)
Orthodoxy – Correct understanding of Christian faith

Orthopraxis – Correct Practice

3 Sources of Christian Faith

A. Scripture,
B. Tradition
C. Human Experience
As Christians, we are called
by the Church to equip our
minds with sufficient
knowledge and
understanding of faith,
live it out in concrete
daily life situations with
constant awareness,
celebration of God’s
grace in prayers and the
sacraments.
In doing so, we can live in
harmony with one
another while hand in
hand, and we can resist the
reality of evil that destroys
God’s plans to make the
Kingdom of God present in
our communities.
Signs of the Kingdom THE FAMILY:
of God in Modern  Experience the
Times significant firsts in our
life
THE FAMILY:
 First school
The Primary Vital Cell
of Society
 First Church

 First Government
Activity: mentimeter
FRIENDSHIP:
God’s Gift to Us https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=fgbdrYsE3-4

“No man is an island”

Being relational beings

also means being with
others other than our
family.
As social being, we are
called to be persons
for others in loving
service, rotted in the
love of God who loves
us first.

Activity:
mentimeter
 In a special way, God
sends us friends who “A friend is someone who
are channels of His knows everything about
love and compassion, you and still accepts you.”
especially during our
darkest moments. - St. Augustine
THE CHURCH: Our
Christian Community

As members of the Church, we

share the same faith in God
while we nurture a deep sense
of community spirit, helping
and encouraging one another
to go on in this life.
As social being, we are
called to be persons
for others in loving
service, rotted in the
love of God who loves
us first.

Welcome to
the family