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| Why Living Sent Matters by Jerry Moll |
Document Description: "Why Living Sent Matters" is Rev. Jerry Moll's paper for Overture I: Fresno course (BGU course). This article will help us understand how studying the city of Fresno California helped Living Sent Ministries sees city transformation as an achievable outcome of their marketplace ministry. |
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| Bono on Capitalism with a Conscience by Rodolpho Carrasco |
This article was published in Prism Magazine, August 12, 2013
'In June, U2 frontman Bono made ripples across evangelical America with aninterview with Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly. In the interview Bono affirmed his Christian faith, reciting a stream of biblical quotes along with his own commentary and applications to daily life. At one point he clearly stated, “I believe that Jesus was the Son of God.”'... |
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Christian Investors Get Patient With Their Capital by Rodolpho Carrasco and Rob Moll |
This is an article published in Forbes, Nov. 2012.
"Christian investment vehicles have always struggled. When the FaithShares ETF launched in December 2009, it was to significant press. The founders rang the opening bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and the Christian and secular press covered their launch. The funds allowed retail investors to put money into stocks based on the recommendations of their denominations. Baptists could avoid liquor while Methodists could avoid gambling profits. However, 18 months after the high-profile launch, FaithShares went defunct..."
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| God and Work - Theology of work - Marketplace Ministry 101 by John Fryters |
 Book Description: This is a curriculum of Theology of Work and Marketplace Ministry developed by Dr. John Fryters for the Indigenous People.
ISBN # 9781626970267
This book is free to download. Comments from those who download would be appreciated. Pastor John Fryters can be reached at campus@inet2000.com |
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| Vision for TOW in East Africa by Jack Mboya* |
Document Description: This is the late Rev. Jack Mboya's vision for TOW in East Africa |
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| Appealing Nepal by Fletcher Tink |
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| Theology of Work – Executive Summary by R. Paul Stevens |
Sample Executive Summary Most of the difficulties we face in mobilising the people of God towards marketplace ministry are due to an inadequate understanding regarding the theology of work. This shortcoming basically arises out of a less-than-comprehensive theology of creation, redemption and eschatology. God the Worker God not only authored work but he himself was a worker (Gen 1, 2; Jn 5:17; Rev 21:5). Throughout the Bible, we see different images of God as a worker namely, shepherd (Psa 23), potter (Jer 18:6), physician (Matt 8: 16), teacher (Psa 143:10), vineyard-dresser (Isa 5:1-7) etc. God is as active and creative today – creating, sustaining, redeeming and consummating – as God was when this five billion light year universe was begun. |
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| The Promise of Technology versus God`s Promise in Job by David Strong |
Sample The Promise of Technology versus God's Promise in JobDavid Strong “In our age, nearly everything we confront on a daily basis is either already under control or it is viewed as something to bring under control and to be made use of. In direct opposition to this way of seeing, interpreting, and taking up with things are the creation stories of the Bible and the vision of wild creation in Job. Wild things in these passages do not need to be rearranged, 'developed,' or made use of before they reach the fullness of their being. Wild things in these passages are already as good as they can be, on their own. Recognizing them in their own right, pausing and lingering unselfconsciously before them, makes one receptive to afresh and refreshing vision of our existence. “ It is easy to blame the way we dominate nature in our age on our Greek and Judaeo-Christian roots. Yet no one in these earlier traditions would have predicted that we would interpret the texts of these traditions the way we do, since there are so many other possible interpretations of them. For instance, none of the Hebrews would have guessed that the “message” of the creation story in Genesis 1 would have been heard by the movers and stompers of our age as: “In the beginning God formed a big ball of raw material. On the sixth day He put humans on the Earth and said, 'I didn't quite finish the job. Have at it! I hate to see it go to waste. Build! Reshape it. Develop it into something.' “ Why, then, do we read this kind of interpretation back into the tradition? ... |
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Providential Work: Esther by R. Paul Stevens [Provided by] |
Sample Providential Work: Esther“I have had five jobs already and am still searching for satisfying work.”
A North American Business Person
At some time or other every one of us feels that we are in the wrong place, at the wrong time doing the wrong thing. Maybe even married to the wrong person! If, we think, we were somewhere else, doing something else we could be useful and deeply satisfied. But the reality is that God has a providential purpose in our lives right where we are. And the Creator has been involved, secretly it often seems, in all the details of our everyday experiences as well as our life-long work trajectory. The early desert fathers and mothers, those spiritual athletes who took to the desert to find God, often told one another, “Stay in your cell. It will teach you everything.” Translated into contemporary English this means:”Don’t go promiscuously from job to job looking for the perfect fit. There is a life-giving divine purpose in your life right where you are. |
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Hope: Making Our Mark on Heaven by R. Paul Stevens [Provided by] |
Sample HOPE: MAKING OUR MARK ON HEAVEN
"How can Christianity call itself catholic if the universe itself is left out?"
Simone Weilxxiii
"I cannot think of a greater tragedy than to think that I am at home on earth...."
Malcolm Muggeridgexxiv
"Only the heavenly-minded are of any earthly use."
C.S. Lewisxxv
Years ago Leslie Newbigin said that "mankind is without any worthwhile end to which the travail of history might lead."xxvi A few believe we are heading into a new world order and paradise on earth but most people nurse a deep foreboding about the future, or refuse to think about it more than they must. The seeming resultlessness of history erodes the nerve of modern persons including, I must add, Christians who have more reason to embrace the future wholeheartedly than anyone. Whether world-weariness and future fright comes from the terrifying prospect of ecological doomsday, or, as is often the case with Christians like the Thessalonians, from the conviction that Jesus will probably come tomorrow, the result is the same for Christians: all work in this world except the so-called "ministry" is viewed as not very significant or enduring. |
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