Cell 9 — Town/Stewardship
“Am I building well?”
Support local business, connect problems to solutions, build communication infrastructure.
Scripture anchors (36)
- Acts 4:32-35 there was not a needy person among them — the connected community
- Isaiah 58:6-12 repairer of the breach, restorer of streets to dwell in — restoration as vocation
- Micah 4:4 every man under his own vine and fig tree — Washington's own recurring citation
- Zechariah 8:3-5 the restored town — streets full of old men and women, boys and girls playing
- Leviticus 25:23-28 the land is mine; you are strangers and sojourners with me — the root of Basil's stewardship claim
- Leviticus 25:35-37 if your brother becomes poor, support him; take no interest from him
- Deuteronomy 15:1-11 there will be no poor among you, if only you obey — the promise Acts 4:34 fulfills
- Deuteronomy 24:14-15 pay the poor laborer his wages the same day
- Deuteronomy 26:12-13 the tithe of the third year for the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow
- Ruth 2:8-16 Boaz's field — a local economy that makes deliberate room for the poor
- Nehemiah 5:14-19 Nehemiah refuses the governor's food allowance and feeds a hundred and fifty at his table
- Proverbs 13:22 a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children — building for those who come after
- Proverbs 14:31 whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker
- Proverbs 22:22-23 do not rob the poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate
- Proverbs 28:27 whoever gives to the poor will not want
- Isaiah 32:8 he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands
- Isaiah 61:4 they shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall repair the ruined cities
- Isaiah 65:21-23 they shall build houses and inhabit them; plant vineyards and eat their fruit — the restored town
- Jeremiah 22:13-17 woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, who makes his neighbor serve for nothing
- Ezekiel 16:49 the guilt of Sodom: excess of food, prosperous ease, and she did not aid the poor and needy — naming causes
- Amos 8:4-6 you who trample on the needy, making the ephah small and the shekel great
- Micah 2:1-2 they covet fields and seize them, houses and take them
- Malachi 3:5 against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages
- Luke 3:10-14 John's civic ethics by trade — share your tunic, collect no more than authorized, extort no one
- Luke 4:18-19 good news to the poor; liberty to the captives
- Luke 16:19-31 the rich man and Lazarus — Chrysostom's On Wealth and Poverty text
- Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus — half my goods to the poor, fourfold restitution; salvation come to this house
- 2 Corinthians 8:9-15 he became poor so that you might become rich; that there may be equality
- Galatians 2:10 remember the poor — the very thing I was eager to do
- 1 Timothy 6:6-10 the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils
- James 1:27 religion pure and undefiled: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction
- James 5:1-6 the wages you kept back by fraud cry out — riches rotted, hoarded in the last days
- Revelation 21:1-4 the holy city coming down — the telos of all building
- Psalm 41:1 blessed is the one who considers the poor
- Psalm 72:12-14 he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper
- Psalm 112:5-9 he has distributed freely, he has given to the poor
Where the two authorities pull apart
- Basil's 'the bread you keep belongs to the hungry' vs. the founders' property-rights framework
Not yet swept
This cell has its seeds and Scripture anchors in place, but the passage sweep has not reached it. It will fill in as the work proceeds.