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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...

SfK Newsletter Vol. 2016-9 September 12, 2016 View this email in your browser                                 "Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” (Luke 12:15)   Relational Being vs. Possessive People Jehovah God's identity centers around His transcendent being. “I Am that I Am.” His name indicates that He exists beyond the constraints of time and space. Everything is insignificant compared to the Transcendent God. Jehovah God is also relational. His being is perfectly manifest in a triune God: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Their harmonious relationship and perfect unity guides us, His creation, to follow and imitate this kind of intertwined kinship.   Jehovah God calls His people in His time, wh...