Patrick Kuwana gives a 13 min perspective of what it means to have and manage a business according to Kingdom principles and shares his thoughts about how Christian business people can think about the economic and business systems that we are embedded in.
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FAITH & WORK REPORT: 2018-2019 SURVEYS
INTRODUCTION The Faith, Work & Economics (FWE) movement has gained much attention in Western Christian evangelical circles in the past few years, and a wealth of materials is available from both the USA and Europe (specifically the UK) relating to how Christians can integrate their faith with their everyday work and public lives. This report …
Boshoff Grobler (2019) on work as a calling
Boshoff Grobler shares his view on work as a calling. Through his personal examples challenges us to live our faith there where we find ourselves. He cites Ephesians 4 as a foundation for his perspective.
Ruan van den Berg 2019: personal faith and work story
Ruan shares his experience of God in his work life by touching briefly on different faith & work topics: Understanding money/profit and business from a Biblical worldview; Experience of being an unlikely candidate in the job/role he finds himself in; Overcoming inner and external obstacles in doing what God set before him; Hearing God speak …
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Gert Roberts 2019 from church to kingdom-mindedness
Gert takes us through his journey as a pastor and later as a marketplace ministry networker and how his thinking changed from an organizational church focus to kingdom-mindedness. He asks the questions: “How does the local church need to change to make impact?” and “What does it take to disciple a nation?” He shares his …
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Sibs Sibanda 2019 talks to church leaders about dualism (part 1 & part 2)
Sibs takes a group of church leaders through rethinking how we do church as an organization using adapted materials from Made To Flourish (www.madetoflourish.org). He takes us through what may be at stake if we don’t integrate congregants’ faith into their everyday lives and gives practical application examples of how to go about making practical …
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Sibs Sibanda 2019: African Traditional Religion and Christian Worldviews (part 1 & part 2)
In this two-part talk Sibs gives an introduction of how these two worldviews differ and overlap, and where people who come from the ATR background may be challenged to understand the gospel from their cultural roots and background.
Podcasts: Durban Faith and Work Integration
In partnership with the New York City Redeemer Presbyterian Church Missions centre and local Durban churches and individuals, the FWA facilitated a two-session series at Christ Church Umhlanga about practically applying the Biblical narrative to your own work context. The first session set the theological grounding for understanding the impact of the Christian Biblical Worldview, …
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Beyond the Paycheck
Beyond the Paycheck This talk was given at an early morning TGIF session in Craighall Park, including all the background sounds that are a natural part of a happening coffee shop. The 45 min talk centers around how we look at our daily work in relation to the gospel, and includes some of the questions …
Faith and Work Integration: Pretoria 22 July 2019
Faith and Work Integration: Cape Town 15 July 2019
Faith and Work Integration: Durban 9-10 July 2019
The Jubilee Gospel – Kim Tan
In this honest and inspiring book, John Parmiter explores how applying the Ten Commandments to our jobs brings us freedom and godly purpose. Focusing as they do on personal integrity and our key relationships (with God and with others), they are disarmingly relevant to the daily pressures we face, whatever our work. This book challenges …
The Other Six Days – R. Paul Stevens
Throughout most of its history the church has been composed of two types of people – those who “do” ministry and those to whom it is “done”. Exploring the theological, structural and cultural reasons for treating laypeople as the objects of ministry, R. Paul Stevens challenges the idea that a select few are called to …
The Relational Manager – Michael Schluter & David John Lee
Relationships that work lie at the heart of every successful organization. Systems, processes, culture: none of these is more important than good relationships in fulfilling a company’s or an organization’s goals. And relationships are not unchangeable: they can be improved. Managers at any level in any organization can make a real difference to performance by …
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Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
Why are some nations more prosperous than others? This book sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is due not to climate, geography or culture, but institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of examples, from ancient Rome through the Tudors to modern-day China, leading academics Darom …
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Fruitfulness On the Frontline – Mark Greene (DVD)
In this honest and inspiring book, John Parmiter explores how applying the Ten Commandments to our jobs brings us freedom and godly purpose. Focusing as they do on personal integrity and our key relationships (with God and with others), they are disarmingly relevant to the daily pressures we face, whatever our work. How can we …
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Fruitfulness On The Frontline – Mark Greene
In this book, Mark Green serves up a liberating view of how God can and does work in and through us in our daily lives. Whether you’re a student or retired, at the gym or at work, at the school gate or in the supermarket, here is a fresh and original framework for fruitfulness. It …
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Life On The Frontline – Neil Hudson (DVD)
This six-session series offers a vital resource to churches and groups seeking to help one another live fruitfully and faithfully for Christ in the daily places of life and work (each one’s frontline). Each session has a short film, discussion material, Bible reflections and stories illustrating how the principles have been worked out in real …
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Imagine Church – Neil Hudson
How can an ordinary church become a community of people who help one another live out their whole life – at home, work, church, in the neighbourhood – as followers of Jesus in His mission to the world? This book offers help and hope from churches to equip disciples to live out their faith in …