Kingdom Strategy

1. Kingdom Strategy & THE MARKETPLACE

2. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.Matthew 6:10

3. PRESENT PROBLEMS “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” Martin Luther King Terrorist Threat

4. PRESENT PROBLEMS Enron Style Capitalism

5. PRESENT PROBLEMS Modern Slavery There are an estimated 27 million slaves in the world today.

6. PRESENT PROBLEMS Global Crime Syndicates 15% of the world’s GDP. 15% of the world’s GDP

7. PRESENT PROBLEMS Lack of Liberty

8. PRESENT PROBLEMS Abuse of the Environment The basic problem is the greed of man, and the lack of courage from governments to tackle the issues.

9. PRESENT PROBLEMS Banking Crisis

10. What is God’s Plan? 

11. Ephesians 3:8-10 • Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms.

12. God’s Wisdom • God’s plan has always been for the church to proclaim his wisdom and to dethrone the worldly philosophies and ideologies (Ephesians 3:10) • In this way we are to occupy the high ground on the battle field of ideas, or the “Commanding Heights” as they have been called (see Ephesians 6:11).

13. God’s Wisdom • The “churches theological values” must “make sense to those beyond its membership” and must be “given expression through secular debate in a language understandable to a broad constituency of people”. • I THINK THAT THIS IS OUR GREAT CHALLENGE!

14. COMPASSIONATE CAPITALISM “By making wealth our goal, we have succumbed to the idolatry of Mammon about which Jesus warned so strongly Matthew 6:24; (Mills, Jubilee, p217).

15. Keys to Discipling a Nation • Radical converts • Trained, equipped and released key leaders • Church planting • Established bases from which to operate • Spiritual warfare

16. Economic Justice • Nehemiah is a PATTERN of Apostolic ministry. • Nehemiah is concerned for building in three areas: • the spiritual-the house of God. Neh.13:11 • the social-marriage. Neh.13:23 • the economic-trading on the Sabbath. Neh.13:15 • The prophets speak of economic justice. Amos 8:5;Deut 25:15 • Nehemiah remembered the poor.

17. Kingdom Strategy & The Marketplace Low Income Markets

18. HISTORY OF DISCIPLING A NATION John Calvin John Wesley William Carey

19. Three Phases To Disciple A Nation George Whitefield SPIRITUAL REVIVAL John Wesley APOSTOLIC ORGANISATION William Wilberforce POLITICAL ECONOMIC REFORMATION

20. Three Phases To Disciple A Nation

21. Base of the Pyramid His plan is not higher taxes or endless handouts, but a PARTNERING with the poor (Lev 19:10; Deut 24:19). God’s desire is to bless us with wealth (Deut 8:18), and He requires that we don’t forget the poor (Deut 15:10). Low Income Markets

22. Social Entrepreneurs • Mohammed Yunus-Banker to the Poor • Microfinancing and partnering with the poor. www.grameen-info.org

23. Social Entrepreneurs • Loaned out U$3,8 billion to 2.4 million families. • Copied by over 250 institutions in nearly 100 countries. • Repayment rate is 98% ! www.grameen-info.org

24. Social Entrepreneurs • Greg Mortenson-Three Cups of Tea • Starting 49 schools in Pakistan and 9 in Afghanistan • Model to multiply www.gregmortenson.com

25. Social Entrepreneurs John Woods Leaving Microsoft to Change The World 3,600 libraries, 2.8mil books, 287 schools, 2,300 girls scholarships www.roomtoread.org

26. Jubilee Principle The heart of Leviticus 25 and the year of Jubilee is that each family should have security and the ability to produce because of owning land.

27. Jubilee Principle • Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist, argues that the poor do not have the legal systems to raise capital; they have houses but not titles; land but not deeds; businesses but not statutes of incorporation.

28. STRATEGYLOOKING AT THE ABOLIONISTS Many different groups formed an integrated and united assault against slavery

29. STRATEGY LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS John NewtonTheology & song, writer of “Amazing Grace” and 279 other hymns. Former slave ship captain and belated abolitionist.

30. STRATEGYLOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS Olaudah EquianoBest-selling autobiography of a slave who earned his freedom.

31. STRATEGYLOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS William WilberforcePolitician, movement’s chief voice in parliament for nearly 40 years.

32. STRATEGYLOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS Josiah WedgewoodCommerce, “AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER” logo

33. STRATEGYLOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS Granville SharpLaw, pamphleteer and pioneer anti-slave crusader

34. STRATEGYLOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS Thomas Clarkson25 year old leader and anti-salve crusader

35. STRATEGYLOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS The Clapham SectA team of Christians informally getting together to press for change. Worked with Wilberforce.

36. Clapham Circle Discussion

37. STRATEGY • Quakers. • Religious Society of Friends. • Started by George Fox in 1652 in England.

38. Businesses and organisations founded by Quakers…

39.  NEW REFORMATION • “There cannot be true revival unless there has been reformation; and reformation is not complete without revival”. Francis Schaeffer • There has to be a NEW THEOLOGY, and there has to be a NEW PENTECOST, so that there can be a NEW REFORMATION.

40. Government Economics Science and Technology Church Family Education Communication Arts and entertainment Community Environment 10 Strategic Areas to Disciple a Nation

41. John Maynard Keynes Ideas are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else... Sooner or later it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. The Commanding Heights, Yergin and Stanislaw

42. Kingdom Strategy & The Marketplace Low Income Markets

43. RESOURCES • Patricia Aburdene, Megatrends 2010: The rise of Conscious Capitalism, 2005, Hampton Roads Publishing • Fred Catherwood, The Creation of Wealth: Recovering a Christian understanding of money, work and ethics, 2002, Crossway Books • Landa Cope, An Introduction to The Old testament Template: Rediscovering God’s principles for discipling all nations, 2006, The Template Institute Press • * W. A de Klerk, The Puritans in Africa, 1975, Bok Books • Peter F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, 1993, Harper Business • Stuart L. Hart, Capitalism at the Crossroads, 2005, Warton School Publishing • Roy Hattersley, John Wesley: A brand from the burning, 2002, Abacus • * Jubilee Manifesto: A framework, agenda & strategy for Christian social reform, Editors: Michael Schluter and John Ashcroft, 2005, IVP

44. RESOURCES • * Alan Lewis, Morals, Markets and Money: Ethical, green and socially responsible finance, 2002, Prentice Hall • Vishal Mangalwadi, The Quest for Freedom and Dignity: Caste, conversion and cultural revolution, 2001, GLS Publishing • * Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: How we can make it happen in our lifetime, 2005, Penguin • * Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? The rise and decline of Western thought and culture, 1976, Crossway Books (Also on DVD).

45. RESOURCES • Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: Christian faith and its confrontation with American society, 1983, Nelson • Charles Villa-Vicencio, A Theology of Reconstruction: Nation-building and human rights, 1992, Cambridge • Jim Wallis, God’s Politics: Why the American right gets it wrong and the left doesn’t get it, 2005, Lion • *Fareed Zakaria, The future of Freedom: Illiberal democracy at home and abroad, 2004, Norton • Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights, 1998, 2002, Touchstone. (Also on DVD).