Transcript Kingdom Strategy & The Marketplace

Your kingdom come,
your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:10
PRESENT PROBLEMS
Terrorist Threat
“Injustice anywhere is
a threat to justice
everywhere”
Martin Luther King
PRESENT PROBLEMS
Enron Style Capitalism
PRESENT PROBLEMS
Modern Slavery
There are an estimated 27 million slaves
in the world today.
PRESENT PROBLEMS
Global Crime Syndicates
15% of the world’s GDP.
15% of the world’s GDP
PRESENT PROBLEMS
Lack of Liberty
PRESENT PROBLEMS
Abuse of the Environment
The basic problem is the greed of
man, and the lack of courage from
governments to tackle the issues.
PRESENT PROBLEMS
Banking Crisis
What is God’s
Plan?
Ephesians 3:8-10
• Although I am less than the least of all God's
people, this grace was given me: to preach
to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
Christ, and to make plain to everyone the
administration of this mystery, which for
ages past was kept hidden in God, who
created all things. His intent was that now,
through the church, the manifold wisdom
of God should be made known to the rulers
and authorities in the heavenly realms.
God’s Wisdom
• God’s plan has always been for the
church to proclaim his wisdom and to
dethrone the worldly philosophies and
ideologies (Ephesians 3:10)
• In this way we are to occupy the high
ground on the battle field of ideas, or the
“Commanding Heights” as they have
been called (see Ephesians 6:11).
God’s Wisdom
• The “churches theological values” must
“make sense to those beyond its
membership” and must be “given
expression through secular debate in a
language understandable to a broad
constituency of people”.
• I THINK THAT THIS IS OUR GREAT
CHALLENGE!
COMPASSIONATE CAPITALISM
“By making wealth our
goal, we have
succumbed to the
idolatry of Mammon
about which Jesus
warned so strongly
Matthew 6:24; (Mills, Jubilee,
p217).
Keys to Discipling a Nation
• Radical converts
• Trained, equipped and released key
leaders
• Church planting
• Established bases from which to operate
• Spiritual warfare
Economic Justice
• Nehemiah is a PATTERN of Apostolic
ministry.
• Nehemiah is concerned for building in
three areas:
– the spiritual-the house of God. Neh.13:11
– the social-marriage. Neh.13:23
– the economic-trading on the Sabbath. Neh.13:15
• The prophets speak of economic justice.
Amos 8:5;Deut 25:15
• Nehemiah remembered the poor.
Kingdom Strategy & The Marketplace
Low Income
Markets
HISTORY OF DISCIPLING A NATION
John Calvin
John Wesley
William Carey
Three Phases To Disciple A Nation
George
Whitefield
John
Wesley
SPIRITUAL
REVIVAL
APOSTOLIC
ORGANISATION
William
Wilberforce
POLITICAL
ECONOMIC
REFORMATION
Three Phases To Disciple A Nation
Base of the Pyramid
God’s desire is
to bless us with
wealth (Deut
8:18), and He
requires that we
don’t forget the
poor (Deut
15:10).
Low Income
Markets
His plan is not
higher taxes or
endless
handouts, but a
PARTNERING
with the poor
(Lev 19:10; Deut
24:19).
Social Entrepreneurs
• Mohammed YunusBanker to the Poor
• Microfinancing and
partnering with the poor.
www.grameen-info.org
Social Entrepreneurs
• Loaned out U$3,8 billion
to 2.4 million families.
• Copied by over 250
institutions in nearly 100
countries.
• Repayment rate is 98% !
www.grameen-info.org
Social Entrepreneurs
• Greg Mortenson-Three Cups
of Tea
• Starting 49 schools in
Pakistan and 9 in
Afghanistan
• Model to multiply
www.gregmortenson.com
Social Entrepreneurs
John Woods
Leaving Microsoft
to Change The
World
3,600 libraries, 2.8mil books, 287
schools, 2,300 girls scholarships
www.roomtoread.org
Jubilee Principle
The heart of Leviticus 25 and the year of Jubilee is that
each family should have security and the ability to produce
because of owning land.
Jubilee Principle
• Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian
economist, argues that the poor do not
have the legal systems to raise capital;
they have houses but not titles; land but
not deeds; businesses but not statutes of
incorporation.
STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLIONISTS
Many different groups
formed an integrated and
united assault against
slavery
STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
John Newton
Theology & song,
writer of “Amazing
Grace” and 279
other hymns.
Former slave ship
captain and belated
abolitionist.
STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
Olaudah Equiano
Best-selling
autobiography of a
slave who earned his
freedom.
STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
William Wilberforce
Politician, movement’s
chief voice in
parliament for nearly 40
years.
STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
Josiah Wedgewood
Commerce,
“AM I NOT A MAN AND A
BROTHER” logo
STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
Granville Sharp
Law, pamphleteer and
pioneer anti-slave
crusader
STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
Thomas
Clarkson
25 year old leader
and anti-salve
crusader
STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
The Clapham
Sect
A team of
Christians
informally getting
together to press
for change.
Worked with
Wilberforce.
Clapham Circle Discussion
STRATEGY
• Quakers.
• Religious Society
of Friends.
• Started by George
Fox in 1652 in
England.
Businesses and organisations founded by
Quakers…
NEW REFORMATION
• “There cannot be true revival unless
there has been reformation; and
reformation is not complete without
revival”. Francis Schaeffer
• There has to be a NEW THEOLOGY, and
there has to be a NEW PENTECOST, so
that there can be a NEW REFORMATION.
10 Strategic Areas to Disciple a Nation
• Government
• Education
• Economics
• Communication
• Science and
Technology
• Arts and
entertainment
• Church
• Community
• Family
• Environment
John Maynard Keynes
Ideas are more powerful than is commonly
understood. Indeed the world is ruled by
little else... Sooner or later it is ideas, not
vested interests, which are dangerous for
good or evil.
The Commanding Heights, Yergin and Stanislaw
Kingdom Strategy & The Marketplace
Low Income
Markets
RESOURCES
•
Patricia Aburdene, Megatrends 2010: The rise of Conscious
Capitalism, 2005, Hampton Roads Publishing
•
Fred Catherwood, The Creation of Wealth: Recovering a Christian
•
Landa Cope, An Introduction to The Old testament Template:
Rediscovering God’s principles for discipling all nations, 2006, The
Template Institute Press
•
* W. A de Klerk, The Puritans in Africa, 1975, Bok Books
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Peter F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, 1993, Harper Business
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Stuart L. Hart, Capitalism at the Crossroads, 2005, Warton School
Publishing
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Roy Hattersley, John Wesley: A brand from the burning, 2002,
Abacus
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* Jubilee Manifesto: A framework, agenda & strategy for Christian
social reform, Editors: Michael Schluter and John Ashcroft, 2005, IVP
understanding of money, work and ethics, 2002, Crossway Books
RESOURCES
• * Alan Lewis, Morals, Markets and Money:
Ethical, green and socially responsible
finance, 2002, Prentice Hall
• Vishal Mangalwadi, The Quest for Freedom
and Dignity: Caste, conversion and cultural
revolution, 2001, GLS Publishing
• * Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: How
we can make it happen in our lifetime, 2005,
Penguin
• * Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then
Live? The rise and decline of Western
thought and culture, 1976, Crossway Books
(Also on DVD).
RESOURCES
• Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction:
Christian faith and its confrontation with American
society, 1983, Nelson
• Charles Villa-Vicencio, A Theology of
Reconstruction: Nation-building and human rights,
1992, Cambridge
• Jim Wallis, God’s Politics: Why the American right
gets it wrong and the left doesn’t get it, 2005,
Lion
• *Fareed Zakaria, The future of Freedom: Illiberal
democracy at home and abroad, 2004, Norton
• Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The
Commanding Heights, 1998, 2002, Touchstone. (Also
on DVD).