They teach a set of questions they call the Incarnational Framework, based on four concepts that go by the shorthand “See, Do, Be, Free.” It starts with three questions:
Does your way of seeing call you out of the myth of scarcity and into the reality of abundance?Does your way of doing call you out of theory and into practice?Does your way of being call you out of rivalry and into peacemaking?
Living according to these three values — prioritizing abundance over scarcity, action over ideas, peacemaking over rivalry — leads to the end goal of nurturing a comprehensive sense of “gospel freedom,” one founded in love, mercy and service. It’s the capacity to act without reacting and to live in accordance with the Spirit, not just self-interest. The framework is used as part of a training guide and is a diagnostic tool to help leaders examine their own approach to transforming their communities.
“The framework is very much a part of what I’m doing as a pastor and what I want our congregation to become,” said the Rev. Lina Thompson, pastor at Lake Burien Presbyterian Church, just south of Seattle. Thompson, who is on the Street Psalms staff, leans on the framework in all aspects of her work. “I go into weekly meetings and think about abundance and about how we can be peacemakers.”
