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SfK Newsletter Vol. 2017-06 June 7, 2017 View this email in your browser And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. (Acts 17:25)     Muslim village transformed through prayer, Christian business people and owls   The following article is an excerpt from the personal blog of Mats Tunehag with permission. It was warm and humid. One may say almost too hot for a Swede. But the story that emerged was more than cool. I listened to the mayor of a small Muslim village. We sat outside his house, drank tea and nibbled on fruit, nuts and sweets. He was enthusiastic and composed. As a devout Muslim he had come to appreciate Christian business people in a way that surprised him. There is a long and sometimes violent history of severe distrust and tension between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia. The village used to be quite poor. Rats ate 40 percent of the crops e...

Wealth Creation Manifesto This Wealth Creation Manifesto was released by Lausanne Movement and BAM Global Thinktank as a result of Lausanne Consultation on Wealth Creation for Holistic Transformation held in March 2017 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Bible talks about wealth in three ways; one is bad and two are good.  Hoarding  of wealth is condemned.  Sharing  of wealth is encouraged.  Wealth creation  is both a godly gift and command, and   there is no wealth to be shared unless it has been created. But all too often the issue of wealth creation is misunderstood, neglected, or even rejected. The same thing applies to wealth creators. The Global Consultation on  The Role of Wealth Creation for Holistic Transformation  aimed at addressing that. During the Consultation process 2016 – 2017 we discussed various aspects of wealth creation, including justice, poverty, Biblical foundation, wealth creators, stewardship of creation and the r...

Partnering with the Creator Excerpt from The Missional Entrepreneur by Mark Russell One of the most notable things about the Genesis creation account, seen in all of Scripture actually, is that God desires to work through humans to carry out His mission in the world. Consider the creation of human beings. God created Adam and Eve in two distinct ways: Adam from dirt and Eve from Adam’s rib. He was undoubtedly capable of creating more human beings in innumerable ways. However, instead of making human beings ad nauseum by Himself, He invited Adam, Eve, and their descendants to do so with Him. His first command was to “be fruitful and increase in number” (Genesis 1:28).             No person of faith in their right mind thinks that humans are creating humans by themselves. We contribute the easiest and most simple part of it (at least males do) and understand that God is doing the mysterious and miraculous part. As the...