Kingdom Work Improved

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by Al McNicoll0 views·Updated Mar 2, 2010
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Kingdom Work

Jesus' Commands

  • Be flavoursome salt and light on display
  • Love your enemies, and those who are against you
  • Store up your treasure in heaven, not on earth
  • Do not judge others, or you will be judged
  • Practise mercy, justice and faithfulness
  • Honour your word (do not swear by anything)

Where are we most able to live these out?

Workplace

Personal Life

Survival

"God help me"

Witness

"Let them see"

Do we invest our talents according to categories?

  • God's grace & the Gospel
  • Spiritual gifts
  • "Worldly" gifts

Integritec

Where Are Our Talents?

Visions / Dreams:

  • A training programme to take on unskilled people normally excluded (e.g. young offenders)
  • Supporting local social enterprises with free / subsidised software
  • Sponsoring a whole orphanage
  • Starting projects with intrinsic humanitarian value
  • Supporting missionaries with IT systems & support
  • Engaging more with the small business community with a view to pass on God-inspired practice & values
  • Starting a French branch ?

Currently:

  • Praying for clients' healing & telling them that we are!
  • Sponsoring one child per employee in the developing world
  • Prioritising prayer and worship in our daily routine & making the needed space / time available
  • Giving a proportion of profits to agreed charitable causes inc. local church
  • Asking God to speak to us about business direction, sales advice, troubleshooting, etc. etc.

How would you invest £1 000 500.50?

Kingdom

"Your Kingdom Come"

Corporate

Reform

Best practice

seminars

Leadership

Prayer

Giving

Ideas

Prayer

for peace

and for wisdom

and even for healing

Not just for colleagues, but also for clients, bosses,

and sponsors

Showing

Godly care for

the people in your care:

helping them to live up to

their own and (ideally)

God's standards.

Showing love in

leadership.

Seeing a need and

coming up with a creative

way of meeting that need.

Christian entrepreneurship!

Research motivated by

love for God and

His Creation!

Making giving an

integral part of your work,

at whatever level of authority

you have at your workplace.

Instigating giving of money,

but also time, skills,

training, ...

Community projects

Social Enterprises

Apprenticeships

New business models

Charity giving

Humanitarian breakthrough