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WEEK 5
TOPIC: TRUE RELIGION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
CONTENT:
- True religion: it is not merely attending church services and programmes. Amos 5:21-23, 25; 4:5. It demands purity of heart, honest desire and justice.
- Social vices of the time of Amos. Amos 2:6-8; 4:1-2; 5:7-13
- Opposition against Amos by Amaziah, priest of the royal sanctuary. (Amos 7:10-17).
- Divine judgment of evil doers (Amos 4:2-3, 6-10).
- Risks often faced by those who carry out divine messages.
- The need to remain steadfast.
Sub- Topic 1: TRUE RELIGION
True religion is the combination of our worshipping God and the practice of righteousness at all time. It is the combination of the ceremonial aspect of our faith with the moral requirements. The ceremonial aspect involves our regular attendance to church services on Sundays or holy days, and payment of tithes, offerings and church dues or levies. The moral aspect of our faith is the practicing of righteousness in human relationship through the works of kindness, love, hospitality, honesty, justice, forgiveness etc.
Amos was the earliest eighth century prophet. Before his call to prophetic work, he was a shepherd and dresser of sycamore tree. He was a native of Tekoa in Judea but prophesied in the northern kingdom during the reigns of Jeroboam and the time of Uzziah in Judea. During this period, there was an economic boom in the northern kingdom (Israel) which resulted in increased disparity between the rich and the poor. Oppression of the poor by the rich became rampant and social evil increased in the society. This social evil co-existed with religious insincerity.
Amos observed that Jewish religion was highly established on the ceremonial side, and totally lacking on
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