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SfK Newsletter Vol. 2016-12 December 5, 2016 View this email in your browser   "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, and the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God." (2 Corinthians 5:17-20)   December is a time to prepare ourselves in celebration of the first advent of Christ, the Anointed One, who appeared as Jesus of the Nazareth. His advent was according to God's promise to send a Savior to His people. Glory to God and peace to the world! His first advent was not for glory, however, but to suffer, die, and pay the ...

SfK Newsletter Vol. 2016-11 November 11, 2016 View this email in your browser   "Dear Children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth." (1 John 3:18)   Eros  love is emotion. It is based on chemistry and feeling. Phileo  love is brotherly comrade that produces affection. Agape  love is action based on willful choice to love and will to love anyway. It is willful and volitional, hence sacrificial and unconditional. God's love for humanity, created in His own image, is agape love. His love for us is manifested in many ways, which ultimately culminated into the cruel and painful, yet redeeming death of Jesus Christ on the Cross. All Christians, believers and followers of Jesus Christ are expected to live a life of love, agape love, which marks a clear distinction for Christian believers. Through Apostle John's letter, the Lord speaks clearly to us [Christians] to love people in action an...

  "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16,17) A deeply rooted dichotomy of the sacred and secular has made business something less than godly. This view is unbiblical and against God's will. The following article, from http://www.transformationalsme .org , explains what a biblical view of business should look like. (SfK Ministries has permission by the author of this article to re-post in our newsletter). It is an eye-opening read that all missional entrepreneurs should take a look at and gain conviction in their missional businesses. BUSINESS ACCORDING TO A GLOBAL DICTIONARY OF THEOLOGY SEPTEMBER 1, 2016   TUNEHAG   LEAVE A COMMENT So what is an article on business doing in a global dictionary of theology?** What place does business have in the life and witness o...