Archive for mission

Aug
15

Help Your Kids Find God’s Mission for Their Lives

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by Greg Singleton

Whenever a person achieves a measure of worldly success in life, suddenly everybody wants to know his or her secret. Most of these successful people talk about the elements of hard work and focus. Some of them aren’t really certain how they got where they are, so they attribute it to luck or fate. There are even a few who think they just got what they deserved, so they’re pretty arrogant about it.

It was quite a few years ago, but I can vividly recall what it felt like when they placed our first baby in my arms there in the hospital room. After a feeling of overwhelming happiness passed, the impact of the responsibility hit me. Then, I started making plans.

I wanted to make sure that my daughter had the best education and knew the most important people, so she couldn’t miss being successful. Wanting what was best for my child was admirable, but my ideas at the time were completely misguided.

King David thought it was important that his kids were successful. Even on his deathbed, he called his son Solomon to his side to make sure he knew what it would take to be successful as the Hebrews’ next ruler. He didn’t tell Solomon about the good colleges though or remind him of the people he needed to connect with to make sure things got done. Instead, in 1 Kings 2, David told his son to be courageous in the face of tough things and to find God’s purpose and follow it.

That’s success. In our book Let It Shine!, my wife Martha and I include the stories of several amazing young adults who are successful because, by God’s power, they are dramatically changing their world for the good. Some of them you might know because they are beginning to achieve recognition for the work they’re doing. Some of them you could pass on the street and never know what a dramatic impact they are having on others’ lives. They have one thing in common, though. They’re not fearful of what could happen or might not happen, and they are passionate about following God’s personal mission for them.

Sometime our kids’ frailties and childish irresponsibility crowd out the fact that God has uniquely called each one of them, too, to be a world-changer. He has gifted them with talents and abilities to achieve great things that might bring them worldwide acclaim or might go virtually unnoticed.

We have the privilege of being able to help them find their place. We don’t need to push them there or wedge them in, but we simply need to introduce them to the One who created them. We show them what it means to be courageous and trust God. And when they find fulfillment in their passion for Him, they will be successful—His way!

Martha and Greg Singleton have, for more than 30 years, met the challenges of balancing successful professional careers in journalism and marketing while raising a faith-filled family (a son, Matt, and a daughter, Annie). Together, they creatively share their experiences and insights on family life at conferences, seminars, workshops, churches of various denominations, schools, and businesses. They live in San Antonio, Texas.

 

 

 

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Jun
29

International Business Equals Gospel Opportunity

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by Mark L. Russell

For most people, the word missionary implies living in another culture. I have spent a great deal of time overseas, traveling to more than 70 countries. Totaling my travel time and years spent living in Russia, Germany, and Chile, I have 10 years of international experience (about a quarter of my life so far). Nevertheless, I have also spent a lot of my energies arguing that the essence of being a missionary is living in God’s mission wherever you are.

I do believe God calls us all to be missionaries, but God does call some of us to spend some time overseas living cross-culturally. That could be for a couple of years or maybe even for a lifetime. Increasingly, people from a business background are being called to live overseas and utilize their unique business calling and background to make an impact for the kingdom of God.

One businessman whom I know sensed a call to go to a country in a part of the world very hostile to the gospel of Christ. He started working for a telecom company owned and operated by a famous individual from the region. This man is internationally known to be hostile to the gospel.

My friend worked within the company to build trust and develop friendships. In the context of these relationships he began to expose colleagues to views on God and life that they had never before considered.

Several years ago, before most Americans were really catching on, my friend realized that Twitter could be a useful tool for mobilizing people, even in this hostile country. As a result, he worked through his colleagues and his company to educate citizens on the use of social media and how it could be used to communicate with others in short bits. 

While my friend is first and foremost a citizen of the kingdom of God, he has equipped the people of the country where he now lives with tools to express themselves in a context where freedom of speech is violently stifled. Freedom of speech leads to freedom of religion.

Most American Christians don’t realize or grasp the fact that millions of people in many parts of the world are denied free access to hearing the gospel. They have no opportunity to respond to Christ. Throughout many regions, people are given one view of god/gods/God and life, and then are forced to accept it. No alternative ideas are tolerated.

Like a medicine slowly working its way through the veins of a body, so my friend’s strategy is slowly working its way through a country in desperate need of freedom. Let’s pray for the eternal healing of Jesus Christ to follow.

Mark Russell is a widely respected voice in the missional community. He has traveled extensively to carry out a variety of business, educational, humanitarian, and religious projects. He is the author of The Missional Entrepreneur.

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Jun
27

Jeff Iorg: Praying Aligned with God’s Mission

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Author and seminary president Dr. Jeff Iorg shares how we can assume responsibility for praying strategically and specifically for missional advance.

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Jun
18

Jamoat (Community) in Uzbekistan

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As we consider discipleship this month on New Hope Digital, we can learn what discipleship includes through the ministry of missionaries in other countries. I asked to share this recent news from a mission servant in Uzbekistan. His report provides an excellent example discipleship, the approaches we can use, and the impact it can make on a life. I’ve included a reminder of the persecution believers face in Uzbekistan.

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Like anything with life, growth and change are inevitable. What we find God has for us today is very different than it was when I first came, and even very different than last year, or last week. It’s a constant effort to resist doing what we have always done and always ask the questions:

1. What is most needed in the Kingdom effort in our region?

2. What are we uniquely gifted to do?

3. What opportunities do we have to serve?

4. What roles and responsibilities do we have to maintain?

Most obvious for us is something that began in the spring of 2005. A Bible study with our teammates and a handful of Uzbek believers quickly morphed into a weekly fellowship. Jamoat as we refer to it, meaning “Community.”This fellowship has gone through many changes and currently meets in a home each Sunday doing a study through the book of James. The children have a story time and games or drawing connected to the day’s theme. There are now 3 families, a married woman with her 3 children and one single lady that come rather consistently. That gives us 12 adults and 6 children excluding our family.

We spend most of every Sunday together, having a meal after our gathering and sometimes going to a park or swimming on hot summer days. It’s more like a family than the traditional idea of a gathering. In addition to Sunday, a ladies’ prayer time has become standard each week with 4 or 5 ladies attending, including one all-nighter each month.

We have been part of a network of workers since 2000. We still maintain those relationships and have partnered to run seminary classes, a marriage retreat and a youth festival in recent years.

In our effort to train leaders locally we are restarting a seminary program which runs once a month for 2-3 days year round all in Uzbek without translation.

Last year we held our first marriage retreat with 10 Uzbek couples attending. That retreat was led by an Uzbek couple from Uzbekistan and turned out to address a real needy area. We followed up by gathering for Valentine’s Day this year and hope to further disciple marriages to forge Biblical marriages in the blossoming Uzbek believing community.

We also hosted a youth festival last summer, mostly coordinated by Uzbeks with one young pastor addressing the youth. Godly relationships among the youth are critical and finding those with a passion for that ministry was a delight.

A women’s prayer group has since grown to 2 groups meeting in various homes in the city. Many women come who can not attend weekly fellowships due to family pressure.

Another aspect of the network is shared resources. We have come into a rather large supply of books and videos, as well as audio materials. These are always made available to leaders in other villages or fellowships across the city. Currently our primary role in this task is CD and DVD duplication with literally thousands distributed. Over 100 cases of new Scripture portions also came in January which were promptly sent to 5 leaders for safe keeping and use in their own ministries.

We have a conviction that all brothers and sisters in this city and region are placed here by God, that we are ONE and that God intends us to work in cooperation for the furtherance of His Kingdom among all peoples.

One ministry is that of radio. Programs are written and recorded nearby for every language across Central Asia, including Uzbek. We have provided them with every resource we have in Uzbek so they have everything available at their fingertips should the need arise.

Last year while talking with a pastor in a village who has a great concern for the growing Uzbek believing community in his region he mentioned that they all have trouble providing for their families. That led to us giving a $1,000 interest free loan thru this pastor to buy a cow that could serve as additional income for an Uzbek man leading a house group in a nearby village.

Than another family came with a similar situation and we gave another loan for livestock. Then a loan for seed to plant in spring to a believing Kurdish family with no income. One turned out extremely well, one OK and I think one was a failure. We have learned from those experiences and now look for opportunities to give loans or partner with others to get them on their feet rather than the age old practice of handouts which have done so much damage.

We bought a fixer-upper last year and are now remodeling that house to resell. We go to the worksite almost every day, pray together and are learning how to seek each other’s good and even resolve differences, all under the constant view of our families and the 3 unbelieving Uzbek men who work for us.

We are seeing many advantages to this type of setup:

1 Getting our friends on their feet financially

2. Living and working together as a real life discipleship

3. Giving us a great witness before unbelieving workers

4. Giving us a presence in a new Uzbek neighborhood and already dozens of new friends.

5. Giving me another understandable identity as a businessman

 

With the understanding that as always, God is more concerned about growing us as His servants than about the work we do for Him, we constantly struggle to make time for a growing relationship with God. Growing in intimacy and developing habits that keep us moving in that direction is a priority.

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Jun
6

Pray for People to Be Saved

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by Jeff Iorg

Praying for people groups (communities, tribes, or nations) and praying for individuals to be saved is biblical. Simply and directly asking for the conversion of a person or group follows Paul’s example.

He wrote one of his prayers when he exclaimed,“Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them (Israel) is for their salvation!” (Romans 10:1, HCSB). While Paul sensed God’s call primarily to evangelize Gentiles, he still wanted his own people—Hebrews—to follow Jesus. So, he prayed for Israel to come to Jesus. This has many layers of application.

First, pray for nations, tribes, or people groups to be saved. One of the most helpful world mission strategies, which has intensified in the past two decades, is praying for people groups to respond to the gospel. When a class, small group, or church takes on a project like this, their spiritual preparation precedes and accompanies missionaries who engage those cultures.

Second, pray for communities or subgroups within communities to be saved. You can pray for the students in your classroom, the people who work in your office, or the fellows in the jail you visit. Any defined subset of people can be an object of your intercession.

Third, pray for individuals—by name—to be saved. Make a list of friends and family members and pray for them to be saved. Asking God for their conversion, by name, is like hand-to-hand spiritual warfare. By praying for people one-by-one, you confront spiritual bondage and oppose forces that confuse them and limit their responsiveness to God. Paul described it this way:

For although we are walking in the flesh, we do not wage war in a fleshly way, since the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments and every high­-minded thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.—2 Corinthians 10:3–5 (HCSB)

 

One way to increase your praying for individuals is to make a list of unsaved people and pray for them regularly. My current prayer list has several men, mostly friends met through my baseball contacts, who I am praying will be saved. My prayers for them, while contributing to their spiritual openness, also remind me to look for opportunities to share the gospel with them.

Praying for the lost—whether a people group or as individuals—will sensitize you to their needs, increase your burden for their eternal destiny, and motivate you to tell them about Jesus. It’s difficult to remain callous toward people you are consistently praying will be saved.

This article is adapted from Live Like a Missionary: Giving Your Life for What Matters Most by Jeff Iorg.

Scripture taken from the Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers. All rights reserved.

Jeff Iorg enjoys umpiring baseball, reading, and searching for the world’s best barbeque restaurant. He and his wife, Ann, have three adult children. His personal ministry includes outreach to the professional baseball community in the Bay Area. He also happens to be the president of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.

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Jun
3

What Is Discipling? (part 2)

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by Jason C. Dukes

Jason Dukes, along with his father, Jimmy, baptizing Jason's son, Caleb.

The second element I would suggest for the discipling process is discernment. Unfortunately, this element of discipling is often left out within programmed discipleship. Discerning where someone is spiritually and where someone is going in life is not required in programmed discipleship. You can simply plug someone into the linear process. Problem is, what results is a stifled disciple, which is actually an oxymoron.

Let me explain. As followers of Jesus, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us. Jesus spoke of the many ways having the Holy Spirit matters in the daily life of a follower as recorded in John 14 to 16. Paul follows that with some pretty insightful teaching in 1 Corinthians and Ephesians. John also elaborates on it in 1 John 5. Among the many aspects of what the Spirit does in and through us is discernment.

 As we engage people in relationship, we need to do more than think, What are the five steps I must take this person through so they will now be a disciple? Maybe a better approach would be to pray something like this:

Holy Spirit, please give me discernment into the heart and life of my new friend. Give me Your wisdom and insight so that I may know how to love them right where they are and encourage them for where You want them to go as we walk on this mutual journey with You.

What if we prayed that? Don’t you think the Spirit would grant us discernment? Then, we would be pulled into an amazing adventure of learning the ways of Jesus and living out those ways alongside someone into whose life we are speaking encouragement and direction as the Holy Spirit leads us. If we would listen as the Spirit provides this discernment, we would be able to determine where on the journey a person is rather than pigeonholing them or trying to take them through a step-by-step process.

This is important. Think about it. If we discount where someone has been in their lives, we will miss out on ways God has already been at work in a person’s life before we ever met them.

Jesus took this seriously. With Peter, Matthew, Mary, Nicodemus, the woman at the well. We must take it seriously too. It is important for us to realize that discipleship is not a program that begins after someone begins to follow Jesus. It is a process that even begins before conversion.

You can’t argue with that principle either, because a cursory reading of the four Gospels makes it plain. Jesus invited 12 guys into relationship and entered into a journey with them that God the Father had already been walking on with them. In other words, He had already been at work. He was there through the tragedy and victories of their lives previous to their encounter with Jesus. Now, Jesus was going to complete the work that had been begun and continue it toward more and more completion—the discipling process that never ends. . . .

The third and final part of this article will appear on Monday, June 6.

This article is adapted from Live Sent: You Are a Letter by Jason C. Dukes.

Jason C. Dukes is a learner, dreamer, and teacher. Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Jason has been on an amazing journey for the last five years while planting Westpoint Church in the Orlando, Florida, area.

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Jun
1

What Is New Hope Digital?

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Definitions can be tricky. They can prove especially difficult to develop when the very thing to be defined is constantly changing and evolving. But I like a challenge, and I’m learning to live with more ambiguity these days.

So, it’s 2011 and the publishing world is undergoing seismic shifts, technology is changing at lightning speed and becoming more accessible by the moment, and the world’s needs seem only more desperate with each new conflict and natural catastrophe. Financial collapse, ebooks, the iPad, 4G, Facebook-fueled protests in Egypt, tornadoes, earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand, human trafficking, Mexican drug wars—the list goes on like some kind of “Subterranean Homesick Blues”-inspired mantra. (I wish I was as lyrical as Dylan.) Somehow all that brings me to NewHopeDigital.com (hereafter, NHD) and a definition.

NHD sits at the confluence of Christian publishing, technological advances, and the dire needs of the world. For me, NHD is a space, a cyberspace not limited by time or geography, where those interested in joining God on mission in the world can learn and listen, read and discuss, investigate and interact over important issues. That’s my definition. And I hope you will join me in seeing this vision blossom and bloom in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

For the not-so-abstract thinkers out there, a more descriptive, more official definition goes like this: NHD is an innovative Web venture from New Hope Publishers, providing readers and retailers with fresh content from top authors and others in multiple digital formats. Each month the site will have a specific theme, such as Orphan Care, Human Exploitation, The Persecuted Church, Upside-Down Kingdom Values, Immigration, and Disciple Making. We’ll be featuring regularly updated magazine-style content—articles, columns, feature stories, podcasts, videos—from New Hope authors and other contributors, in addition to the latest book releases.

I’m looking forward to fleshing this concept out. There’s so much happening today that Christians need to examine, think through, work for or against, pray about, and strategize for. God has called us to engage our moment, not the past (though we must learn from it) and not the future (though we must anticipate it as best we can). And these are dizzying times. But we can be thankful that the answer to the issues confronting us today is timeless—it is the gospel. Sin is real. It separates and alienates and twists and distorts and disfigures (think Smeagol/Gollum in The Lord of the Rings), and if not dealt with, will lead to eternal death. But, God in Christ is reconciling the world to Himself (see 2 Corinthians 5:18–21). And we get to be a part of that as He has empowered and commissioned us now to make disciples among all the peoples of the world, extending the love of God in word and action.

There’s no alternative plan out there. As Tom Blackaby writes in Experiencing God’s Love in the Church, “Where else can anyone find the love of God, if not in His church and among His people? If love cannot be found there, then there is no hope for a lost world. No hope at all.”

We want to love God, love our brothers and sisters, and to offer people hope in Christ. That’s what NewHopeDigital.com is all about.

 

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Jun
1

The Invention of the Phonograph and NewHopeDigital.com

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I recently stood on the lawn of Thomas Edison’s winter home in Fort Myers, Florida. As much as I marvel at his brilliance, I was most impressed with the reason for his inventions. He invented because he saw the needs of the world and wanted to meet those needs. From light bulbs to rubber plants, his goal was to help humanity.

One of the needs he addressed was that of making information accessible to every person in the world. This led to the invention of the phonograph. By 1888 he was producing phonographs for families to purchase for their homes. In an article for the North American Journal, he wrote, “The speeches of orators, the discourses of clergymen, can be had ‘on tap,’ in every house that owns a phonograph.”

Edison’s vision for  the phonograph was 10 years in the making. He believed a time was coming when words would be recorded and heard by people in every home in every nation. Even when he began to sell the phonograph he produced a standardized model to insure every country would be able to use it. He wrote, “a record put upon the machine in New York could be placed on another machine of the same pattern in China and speak exactly as it was spoken to on this continent.” In his article he gave example after example of ways the phonograph would change communication. As we know, it did exactly that.

Like Edison, Great Commission publishers hunger to find new ways to bring the transformational words of their authors to a world where every kind of content is accessible. The need for more Christian content is evident. Who would have dreamed of the proliferation of pornography and violence unavoidable except by complete disengagement from TV and the Web? Who would have imagined that our world would allow a new Web domain just for pornographic content? I suggest it is time for a new domain called .God. While I haven’t invented .God, I do have a vision for delivering Christ-inspired content where every heart and mind can choose to respond, where Christ is already at work making Himself known.

When we first began our journey that has led to NewHopeDigital.com we didn’t realize the ability of our staff and the shared vision of our authors to make this a reality. But when God gives the vision, He also provides everything needed to accomplish it. Thomas Edison said, “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” The Bible states, “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory” (Ephesians 1:11-12 ESV).

New Hope Digital is to the praise of His glory for it brings the needs of the world together with the God-given expertise, ministries, and messages of New Hope’s authors to create a global discussion and response. Our authors are not only writers, but Christ-followers actively involved in living out their faith.

Yesterday’s phonograph is today’s instant message. I believe God knew the spiritual needs of the world would require far more than phonographs in the twenty-first century. New Hope Publishers and our authors share a passion to make Christ known through every means we are capable of providing. We pray NewHopeDigital.com will inspire and encourage you as a Christ follower and that God will empower you to serve Him in your home, your community, and the world.

“Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it” (2 Corinthians 3:3 MSG).

All Scripture quotations marked ESV are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture marked MSG taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

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May
20

Act of Worship

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by Kimberly Sowell

2/27/11

“An act of worship.” I held my daughter to my heart as she embraced me tightly during our tearful goodbye. I was leaving for Japan, and this was the first time my daughter had ever cried during our farewell before a mission trip. She and I had been praying for months about this trip, interceding for missionaries, the lost of Japan, and the mission team I was leading. She was excited about the people who would hear about Jesus for the very first time. Nonetheless, when it came time for this little girl’s mom to get on a plane, the tears flowed as she felt the anticipation of our time apart. I searched for words of comfort, but instead came words of challenge for her spiritual growth.

“I’ll miss you, too, Julia. Every time we miss one another, we need to pray for each other and choose to be joyful as an act of worship.” Act of worship. I would cling to those words for seven days. Lord, redeem these days in her life and mine. Do a great work, Father, and teach my family to embrace sacrifice as we surrender to Your lordship.

3/7/11

She was watching for me. When the tires hit the beginning of that long, winding driveway, my daughter went flying into the house to make her announcement. I could almost hear her with my heart: “Momma’s home! Momma’s home!” I just barely got my car door open before the hugs commenced. “Mommy, I missed you! I’m so glad you’re home!” were the first words out of her mouth, but the next set of words confirmed that God had been faithful: “Mommy, did you tell a lot of people about Jesus? Did any Japanese get saved?”

3/11/11

My husband woke me with news that a massive earthquake had hit Japan, followed by a destructive tsunami. Every news report, every photograph of the devastation seemed surreal. My mind raced, trying to remember every person I had met in Japan, trying to pray for each one. Oh, God, what is happening this morning with the Japanese man on the plane who politely refused my offer of a Bible? Then my thoughts quickly shifted to home and what I would say to Julia, this little girl I had been training to love Japan.

Act of worship. Obedience. Sacrifice. Urgency. These are words God wanted my eight-year-old—and me—to understand.

“Julia, we’ve got more things to pray about for Japan today.” I broke the news to my daughter, trying to be sensitive to her young heart.

“Julia, do you remember how you and I have prayed and prayed together for Japan? Remember how we didn’t give in to our own desires to be together, but we agreed to be apart for a week so Mommy could tell the people about Jesus?” (Then a dramatic pause as every puzzle piece locked together in Julia’s mind.) “I’m so glad we trusted God. It was our act of worship.”

Kimberly Sowell is founder and president of Kingdom Heart Ministries, dedicated to inspiring women to make their relationship with Jesus Christ the center of who they are and how they live each moment—growing in Christ and sharing their faith with the world. She and her husband, Kevin, along with their children, make their home in Lancaster, South Carolina. Contact Kimberly at ksowell@comporium.net or http://www.kimberlysowell.com/.

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Apr
12

God and Money

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By Mark Russell

The economy is like your home. If your home collapses, you’ll be injured. If it’s polluted or broken, you’re likely to be harmed. But if your

home has a robust foundation and is well built, then you will be protected and secure. The same is true of the economy.

Like it or not, all of us are daily affected by the economic systems in which we live. Money, while it should not become an object of our love, is an undeniably important part of life on planet Earth. Modern societies cannot function without currency; people cannot get by without money (either theirs or someone else’s).

Economics (which may include topics such as work, budgeting, financial markets, and business models) is a complicated and sometimes touchy subject. And that’s probably why it is not as frequently discussed in churches as it should be. That needs to change. After all, God is very interested in this subject, as at least 800 Scriptures are related to money.

Think about this: The Bible starts with God working and then commissioning Adam and Eve to work in the Garden and rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky (Genesis 1:28). God gave them every plant for food (Genesis 1:29–30), but as the biblical story rolls out, we see that they worked to produce that food. Their work was not in vain; from the very beginning of time, work was a means to humanity’s provision.

As the biblical story moves on, we see that humans sinned. Humanity is fallen and imperfect. We have become slaves and lovers of money. As a result, our systems are imperfect, reflecting the imperfections of us all.

Our relationship with work also has become increasingly complex since the days of the Garden of Eden. Today, most people, at least in the West, do not produce the food that they eat or build the homes in which they live or assemble the cars that they drive. Rather we perform a task or service, are compensated for that work with money, and use that money to purchase what we need and want.

This is why money is so central to our lives. It serves as the bridge between our work and our provision. This bridge resides within a larger system, our economy.

In between the Fall and 2011, something happened that changes everything. Christ came. He came to bring about a new way of living, which he frequently referred to as the kingdom of God. Many people have viewed the kingdom as a purely spiritual reality. But the kingdom should manifest itself in the here and now, and it should work its way into the economic
dealings of our world.

Throughout my career, I have traveled to more than 70 countries, largely working in the entrepreneurial and economic sectors of society. I believe that God’s new way of living should have a direct impact on the economic realities of people everywhere.

Bringing together the values of the kingdom with the economics of our times is what I call kingdom economics. Fusing these two worlds together is not easy, but we can’t afford not to.

Over the next few months I look forward to examining and exploring what kingdom economics means for you, for our nation, for the poor, and for our world.

Mark Russell is a widely respected voice in the missional community. He has lived in Russia, Chile, and Germany, and has traveled to more than 70 countries to carry out a variety of business, educational, humanitarian, and religious projects. He is the author of The Missional Entrepreneur.

Contact Mark through www.russell-media.com, www.facebook.com/marklrussell, www.twitter.com/marklrussell.

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