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SfK Newsletter Vol. 2017-07 July 9, 2017 View this email in your browser A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. (John 13:34,35) SHALOM 3rd Installation of  The Missional Entrepreneur by  Mark Russell series The spiritual mission of business is not to establish a kingdom of wealth and power but to bring the kingdom of God into tangible reality. The kingdom of God can be most simply defined as  God’s reign . So, the kingdom is the manifestation of God’s ideals, principles, values, and will. It can also be understood as a physical expression of a spiritual reality.  Continue... MINISTRY UPDATES Jehovah Jireh! God Provides! God has sent a few key Kingdom Fellows to help share the burden to carry out the ministry.  Ms. Kaye Min  has joined SfK as the Regional Director for...

Excerpt #3 from The Missional Entrepreneur by Mark Russell The spiritual mission of business is not to establish a kingdom of wealth and power but to bring the kingdom of God into tangible reality. The kingdom of God can be most simply defined as God’s reign . So, the kingdom is the manifestation of God’s ideals, principles, values, and will. It can also be understood as a physical expression of a spiritual reality.              The kingdom of God is not an esoteric, abstract concept; rather it is observable and concrete. When we see expressions of love, generosity, and grace these can be said to be a glimpse of the kingdom of God. This is not to say that everything about the kingdom of God is observable and physical. The kingdom of God refers to God’s reign over all things, both visible and invisible, both physical and spiritual, throughout all of creation. But it is, as Methodist missionary and theologian E. St...

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...