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You have been asked by the church elders or leaders to help guide your faith community through a discussion and ethical response to one of the following issues that mark a broken and watching world: Racial Tension.create a 15-20 slide presentation for your faith community that guides a discussion and ethical response to the chosen issue. Consider the Code of Ethics for Pastors and the GCU Ethical Positions Statement when responding to the following:What is the issue? How does the previous study of Jonah in this course help inform how you engage with the chosen issue?How does the Christian worldview address this issue in light of mercy, justice, and compassion?What biblical, theological, and ethical principles for this issue align with the values, vision, and mission of your ministry context?Based on these ethical principles, what are practical steps that you can use to encourage those in your sphere of influence or ministry context who may need to understand and engage with this issue? create a title slide, reference slides, and slide notes that provide detailed explanations.

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Racial Tension 
Code of Ethics 
Racial Tension 
What Is Racial Tension  
Racial Tension is the feeling that exists when people do not trust and be aggressive to each other it is easily caused by prejudice and discrimination. 
Initially people do not take it seriously and when the cases happen frequently and massively, people won’t take them as specials cases. 
The races that besieged then tend to feel anxious and strike back in order to protect themselves and thus the racial tension is created. 
For examples, incidents of violence against Indians in Australia were happened frequently in last few months. 
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Jonah’s Mission 
We derive inspiration from Jonah’s mission to Nineveh, Jonah did not wanted mercy for Nineveh as he had great hatred for them as they were proven to be the enemies of Israel due to which there was great racial tension. 
In the end it was found that Jonah chose silence and hate rather than obedience and love. 
Jonah’s Case 
In Jonah’s Case it was Found: 
Jonah experienced mercy but gave none;
He received love but returned none;
He was benefited from the patience of God but resented God for showing that same patience to Nineveh.
Bible says that "There's a wideness in God's mercy like the wideness of the sea." But the ultimate expression of the wideness of God's mercy is that of the outstretched arms of Christ nailed to a cross and dying for our sins. 
Jonah’s Mission 
Jonah received God's mercy and even steered others to it, but his great failure was in not wanting others to be allowed to experience that mercy for themselves. God grant that we would succeed in gratefully and obediently taking His mercy to those who need it as much as we do.
Christian Worldview 
Bible says on Racism that: 
Human beings share earth as common home.
All people born on this earth belong to “One Family” and are related to each other.  
Christians who love others and fulfill every responsibility towards them should do it with love and mercy. 
Justice does not demand that the wrongdoers be repaid evil for evil. 
human beings share earth as common home therefore all should be regarded as members though distantly related. Therefore members of all the communities should be regarded as one family. 
Justice does not demand that the wrongdoers be repaid evil for evil neither it forbids giving  what is unmerited. 
Even when humanity of others is acknowledged, groups struggle for competitive advantages therefore all the people should form small communities and settle arrangements.

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