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Equipping Ordinary People for Kingdom Work

Source:?http://www.tear.org.au/learn/target/equipping-ordinary-people-for-kingdom-work

Duncan Brown is passionate about seeing the Church realize its empowering potential. Now a Queensland farmer, his passion has extended in many directions: as a journalist with leading newspapers, a senior pastor of a vibrant church, director of Scripture Union Queensland overseeing enormous growth, social entrepreneur, and a church consultant.?

Tim Johnson spoke with Duncan (a former mentor of his), to find out how the Church has limited discipleship, and how it might equip and mobilize Kingdom-oriented Christians.

TJ: Jesus teaches a way of life that emphasizes love, compassion and non-violence. A radical social alternative that places him, and those who follow, at odds with established culture. Jesus ushers in a new social paradigm ? the Kingdom of God ? which values service, sacrifice?and generosity.?

Sometimes it feels like churches have prioritized gatherings and programs at the expense of equipping people to follow this path. What do you think?

Book Review: “Ordinary Mum, Extraordinary Mission”

?Ordinary Mum, Extraordinary Mission? by Anna France-Williams and Joy French doesn?t fall into the usual ?Motherhood? book that?s on the market.It doesn?t promise to give you the perfect formula to reach supermum status. It doesn?t give any tips and schedules on how to create the perfect balance between serving God, serving your family and kids and serving the church. Surprised? You needn?t be once you understand the heart of the message that this thought-provoking, challenging book wants you to take away.

?Rather than subscribing to the theory that mission is something we must add onto our already exhausted Christian ?To Do? list, it explores and unpacks the concept of being missional as an attitude. More of who we are, not what we do. [Read more…] about Book Review: “Ordinary Mum, Extraordinary Mission”

Workplace Myth #5: ?Work sucks! Early retirement is the dream.’

As a fairly recent retiree, the title of Workplace Myth #5 caught my attention – I must be living the dream! ?

But Jeremy Moses (from Threads) is really targeting recent graduates who have found that first job is not all they had hoped it would be.

On the other hand, he can say that, “… over the past three years, I would say work has been the main place that I have learnt how to love people unconditionally, to forgive people and to receive forgiveness from others (and God). You could say it?s where I have learnt most about discipleship.”