Global Marketplace Exchange
Church and Marketplace Re-Formation Conference
Conference Report Ver. 3.2
Foothills Conference Centre, Melbourne
5-7 February 2015
Contents
About Us .................................................................................................................................................... 2
Operations Team ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Attendance ................................................................................................................................................ 2
Nomenclature ............................................................................................................................................ 2
Revival or Re-formation? ........................................................................................................................... 2
Church and State Re-Formation ................................................................................................................ 3
Conference Template ................................................................................................................................ 3
Template Tool ............................................................................................................................................ 3
2015 Conference Reports .......................................................................................................................... 3
Prayer and Worship Teams ....................................................................................................................... 3
Strategy...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Arts/Ent. Domain ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Business Domain – 1 .................................................................................................................................. 6
Business Domain – 2 .................................................................................................................................. 8
Business Domain – 3 .................................................................................................................................. 9
Church - 1................................................................................................................................................. 11
Church – 2 ................................................................................................................................................ 11
Education Domain ................................................................................................................................... 12
Family ...................................................................................................................................................... 15
Government Domain ............................................................................................................................... 17
Health Domain ......................................................................................................................................... 17
Justice Domain......................................................................................................................................... 20
Media Domain ......................................................................................................................................... 21
NFP/Welfare Domain............................................................................................................................... 22
Sport and Recreation Domain ................................................................................................................. 23
Appendix .................................................................................................................................................. 23
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About Us
Global Marketplace Exchange (GME) is a coalition
of Kingdom Partners (KP) dedicated to glorifying
Jesus in every domain of our city and nation (John
17:18-23, Colossians 1:15-20).
Kingdom Partners are nodes in the net of the
kingdom of God spread across church and
marketplace domains. We work by relationship
and referral as distinct to independence and
competition. Every partner is committed to the
success of every other partner under God.
GME builds relationships that collaborate in the
exchange of ideas, referrals, connectivity,
experience, resources and mutual support.
GME is a pioneering contributor to Church and
Marketplace re-formation to bless our nation
under God (Gen 1:28, Psalm 33:12).
Operations Team
Founder/Director: Capt. Peter Kentley
Conference Facilitator: Edmund Koza
IT Architecture: Stuart MacLean
Learning & Development: Dr Albert Haddad
Planning & Logistics: Ian Pattie
Contributing Coordinators:
 Adelaide: Mark Mudri
 Business: John Lockwood
 Church: Dr Sean Morris
 Congress WBN: Peter Njoroge
 Perth: Ps Margaret Court
 Prayer: Terry Slater
 Purpose & Vision: Ps Asoka Perera
 Quo Vadis: Ken Fish, Los Angeles
 Strategy: Dr Elijah Low, Dallas
Attendance
Around 180 leaders attended this first GME
conference from all States and Territories of
Australia except the NT. These included:
ARTS
Director of Christian Artists Factory and
representatives of Candlelight.
BUSINESS
Some 40 leaders from key Christian business
groups across the nation including: Kingdom
Builders, Kingdom Investors, FGBA, ICCC, and
Congress-WBN.
CHURCH
Leaders from Southern Cross Network,
International Network of Churches, Casey Pastors
Network and apologies from Ps Margaret Court
(VLC churches in 23 countries) and many others.
EDUCATION
Some 30 Christian leaders including principles of
two Bible Colleges. Workshop coordinator: Dr
Neville Carr.
FAMILY
Director of Focus on the Family.
GOVERNMENT
Local parliamentary representatives, VIC Director
of Family Voice and some 20 other involved
parties.
HEALTH
President of Vic Branch of the Christian Medical &
Dental Fellowship of Australia, and the Director
of Medicine with Morality.
JUSTICE
Vic President of Christian Legal Society, other key
lawyers from ADL and CBR.
MEDIA
CEO of Christian Media Australia
NOT FOR PROFITS/Welfare
Director of Teen Challenge, ED Delgarno Institute.
SPORT
Director of Sports Chaplaincy Australia.
Appendix - The Bounty Story.
Nomenclature
In this conference the term “domains” can be
read synonymously with parallel terms such as
Gates, Cultural Mountains, Sectors or Spheres of
Influence. Where a domain of society honours
the supremacy of Christ it becomes a King’s
Domain or kingdom where “your kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”
(Matt 6:10, Col 1:15-20). Similarly the terms
“State” and “Marketplace” are used
interchangeably in this conference.
Revival or Re-formation?
History tells us that revivals are relatively short
lived and often leave communities in worse
shape than before they began (Matthew 12:4345). Unless there is re-formation where the
culture is cleaned up and occupied by kingdom
people (Gen 1:28) the culture of the marketplace
reverts to disorder and overwhelms the church.
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Domain Cultural Influence
Church and State Re-Formation
By this we do not mean a continuation of the
reformation started by Martin Luther’s 1517
ninety five theses. That protest is now over with
the 1999 Lutheran World Federation and Catholic
Church's joint declaration on the doctrine of
justification.
The re-formation we are seeking comes out of
the reality that the western church is losing the
battle with culture over the pre-eminence of
Christ in our cities and nations (Col 1:15-20).
When an army is losing a battle it needs to
withdraw and re-form by re-arming, bringing in
fresh troops and re-strategising how to win the
war. And win we will because it is written: Daniel
7:21-22, Rev 13:7 and 17:12-14. This battle plan
of re-formation drives the conference.
What is the peak body to which your group must
become a respected contributor if it is to bring
kingdom influence to your domain?
Who, When, Where
Nominate a team of three leaders from your
domain who will represent your group as
conference representatives. Make a plan to
determine who, when and where they will meet
to catalyse and pursue with clarity and
perseverance your:
 domain objectives
 convergence objectives
 proposals to the annual conference.
Template Tool
PRISM
But re-form to what? The answer to this critical
question is found in re-discovery of what Jesus
meant in the establishment of his “ecclesia” in
Matt 16:13-20. The ecclesia of Jesus -
P
Potential Key Objective: what are you
working towards as an organisation?
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1. hear and understand the Great Command,
the Great Commission, the Lord’s Prayer and
Jesus’ prayer of John 17;
Rewards: who wins, outline the benefits,
what fruit does the kingdom produce?
I
Implications: who should be involved and
what are the resources and +/- risks?
2. commit to live according to these principles.
S
3. commit to work together to provide everyday
leadership based on these principles of the
Kingdom so as to produce good fruit that
lasts (Matt 13:23, John 15:16).
Solutions: what is your joint approach to
achieving your objective(s)?
M Movement: who does what, where and
when?
2015 Conference Reports
Conference Template
Prayer and Worship Teams
20 Year Vision
Discover your organisation’s domain purpose in
the context of a 20 year vision where we imagine
that Christ has returned. What would your
domain look like as a King’s domain rather than a
secular sphere? Write a 200 word descriptor of
this vision as a work in progress.
Convenor Observations
This conference account is intentionally led by
the prayer and worship report to reflect the way
the armies of the Lord enter battle.
Current Year Objectives
What are two current year domain objectives
that your organisation is working towards in the
context of your 20 year vision?
Convergence Objectives
What are our two highest priority national
objectives that can only be achieved if three of
more domains work in collaboration?
From the convenor’s perspective this was the
best prepared and prayer covered conference in
his experience. The time, dedication and passion
for prayer was outstanding both before, during
and after the event. There were guidance,
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healing, releasing and reconciliations throughout
the conference. Hearty thanks and
congratulations to the prayer co-ordinator and
every member of this fantastic team.
On Friday night the worship intentionally
changed the focus from strategy to worship. This
was the plan of the conference for a symphony in
three movements: Thursday story-telling and
support; Friday seeking practical strategy under
the leading of the Holy Spirit; Friday night and
Saturday strategic feedback, discovery, prayer
and worship.
From the Heart of God – by Jill Curry
There are three things from the conference that I
felt came from the heart of God via the hearts of
people that we must not lose sight of but
continue to address and pray into:
1. The cry from God’s heart on abortion that
culminated in the prophetic act of forming an
arrow with the blowing the shofar at the
head of the arrow. This needs to be taken up
by the health sector with others supporting
(Ex 2:13, Lev 20:1-4, Jer 1:5, Ezek 16:20.21
&36, Ezek Ch 9, Matt 5:17-21, John 10:10).
2. The cry from the heart of an attendee whose
son had been caught up in a homosexual
relationship. This needs to be taken up by
the family sector with others supporting.
3. The cry from the heart re the importance of
putting Israel into its rightful place in God’s
perspective of His end-time movements in
the earth. The church should be carrying this
burden but it is not in a position to do this
where it follows replacement theology. We
need continuing prayer for a shift in the
wider churches understanding on Israel. In
the meantime this is carried by those who
share this burden.
However, some changes will be needed to
improve on its ability to:
 Create cross domain synergistic groups
 Create strategic objectives
 Create strategy around those objectives
 Structure the groups going forward
The changes suggested draws upon two
successful innovations that uses synergistic cross
functional teams: The Bionic Ear and the
Convergence research at the Weiss Foundation,
Harvard University.
Objectives and strategy should not be created
within the domains. This became hugely evident
in the church domain group where the members
got into a huge debate around the objectives. It is
not the debate that is concerning, but rather the
process that demonstrates that the debate itself
doesn’t produce a better outcome. At best you
will end up with a compromise set of objectives
that will neither inspire nor improve the world
and at worst it will undo the unity of the
convergence. Objectives and strategy require a
cross functional team to develop. For example, a
team of doctors could not develop the organ-ona-chip innovation but rather, it needed a cross
functional team of doctors, IT, Engineering, and
other skills to develop objectives and strategy
around its development.
Objectives should be compatible with the
revelation of the vision the Lord has given for the
new earth (Isaiah 65). Otherwise we can end up
with a list of problems that needs fixing. Christian
need to become known for progressing vision
towards a better world rather than just being
against policy.
Elijah’s proposed structure for conference
process are outlined in a separate document.
You are invited to click the following link to listen
to Dr Low’s insights on a Kingdom basis for long
term economic and spiritual development:
www.growmelbourne.org/media/dynasty/#.VNenO8cRow
Strategy
Dr Elijah Low
Grow World
The overall GME was a success at:
 Bringing a diverse group of Christian
leaders together from the domains.
 Seeding a vision of transforming Australia
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Arts/Ent. Domain
Dee Kaylock
CAF Network/Sounds of the Nations
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It was great to have met with over 40 leaders in
the Arts Domain at a National Arts Summit
December2014, and I was able to introduce a
couple of the vision statements developed from
that conversation. I believe in the idea of the
exchange and think we need to ensure we get
more of those with a Kingdom mindset around
the table. I gave the group a choice of 4 Point
statements and they chose one to work on (arts
and justice). They reworded it to their
satisfaction to make it more closely aligned to
those gathered around the table without losing
the essence. The following is the result and we
ended up with 2 streams from the one point.
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The first stream is Entertainment and refers to
artists creating high quality issue based work in
multiple mainstream forums. These forums
include Theatres, Studios, & broadcast channels.
This stream is where the general public come face
to face with their humanity, poverty of spirit, and
soul (or the flesh).
transformational thinking through high
quality work
Shifting public perception away from
helplessness to hopefulness and action
re framing the meta narrative through the
telling of stories in all art forms
Changing the perception of the church from
distant charity to active engagement
Artists are funded to invest appropriate
amounts of time and energy into developing
quality work/projects with measurable
outcomes.
Community Development
 Empowerment of the marginalised groups
within our society.
 The development of a “culture of others”
nurtured and embedded in churches and
artists.
 Community - self determination
 Healing and restoration of God given identity.
 Change of conduct in communitytransforming a township, subculture or
people group.
Belonging - being nurtured and developed which
leads to believing and encounter with the Father.
The second stream is Community Development
and refers to artists engaging with marginalised
groups or communities and assisting them in
creating platforms to have their story heard and
respected. It sits more in a sociological &
therapeutic model where the community dreams
of a new reality and begins a process of
redeeming their identity through life, hope, and
wholeness. Both require artistic excellence and
engagement and both require the other. A good
example is the Choir of Hard Knocks.
I – Implications
PRISM
Community Development
 Improved sustainability.
 Education for all stakeholders.
 Reallocation of time and resources.
P – Potential Key Objective
Integrating Arts Practitioners into local and global
community development at all levels to engage
equip and empower people to express their gifts
and transform their communities in sustainable
ways as an expression of their identity in Gods
Kingdom.
R - Rewards
Entertainment
 Education through the arts as an expression
not a weapon.
 Artists understood as missionaries into
culture.
 Church restored as patrons.
 Businesses committing part of their annual
budget to measurable cultural/social justice
outcomes i.e. Bendigo Bank.
S – Solutions
Entertainment
 Church & Businesses partner with artists in
development stages
 Development of a culture of honour.
 Excellence in processes and product
Entertainment
 Engage mainstream audiences in
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Community Development
 Church & Businesses partner with artists in
development stages.
 Must be a relational.
 Understanding of a long term process.
 Understanding of transformation and
redeeming imagination to envision a different
future.
 Impartation rather than an Import mindset.
M – Movement
Entertainment & Community Development
 Artists need to be trained up in both Skills
and Spiritual/theological principles
 Education of the churches in Cultural
engagement (speak the language of culture)
 Networking across all domains - business,
Govt, Ed, Media, Health, Justice etc.
 Identify and establish relationships with likeminded key stakeholders such as church
leaders, artists, community based
organisations, (Australia Together, Grasstree,
Surrender, TEAR)
 Education of artists through existing
organisations: VCA, NICA, CAF, SOTN, CP,
Whitely, Tabor, MST, 3 Darts.
 Identify key funding bodies for seed and
development funding.
territory they take so that Babylon is utterly
ousted (Principle: Matt 12:43-45).
Further to this we took some time to describe the
enemy that holds this territory. Quite literally the
vast majority of Christian business people have
no idea what the enemy looks like and as such
they are part of the problem.
To this end we discussed the concept as
portrayed by Jesus in Matt 25, and by the
Prophet in Isaiah 58:3-12 whereby there existed
a world without the hungry (starvation, disease
from malnutrition), the homeless and the naked
(destitution, poverty, unemployment,
prostitution), strangers (refugees of which there
are now many millions), falsely accused (political
prisoners, religious prisoners, prisoners as a
result of corrupt leaders), the abused (sex slaves,
human trafficking, violence, crime, domestic
violence, drugs, substance abuse, suicide.)
We agreed that this is the kind of society where
all of the social and moral infrastructure that the
Lord has longed for, for thousands of years, had
been ushered into the earth - so that we had a
model of the Kingdom of God which could be
used as a benchmark for other nations.
Isaiah 58 and Australia
Business Domain – 1
Dave Hodgson
CEO Paladin Group
Overall Objective
To help Australia achieve her destiny to be a
“Sheep Nation” in ten years (Matt 25:53).
Broad Description
It is critical that business people understand
exactly where they are going to contribute to the
future of this nation. There can be no vagaries or
ambiguity with something so important. They will
need to be able to defend and promote their
vision to the secular world. They will need to fight
to dislodge Babylon which has held dominion and
remained largely unchallenged in the
marketplace for three thousand years since the
days after Solomon in the 10th Century, BC. They
will need to defeat this entrenched enemy and
replace it with the economy of the Kingdom of
God. Above all they will need to OCCUPY the
We explored why this has change needs to
happen in Australia:
 because Australia is a very significant nation
in the developed world
 it is the 12th economy on earth
 it has the 6th most traded currency
 it is the closest ally to world’s greatest power
 it is a world leader in sport and many other
domains
 And yet we are only 23 million people.
Therefore in order to reach a tipping point to
create a change in culture we only need to win
over around 6% - in other words less than 1.5
million domain people.
There are other countries with small populations
which could be change, but they are not as
significant as Australia and it would be unlikely
that they would be viewed as a benchmark by the
larger nations who must also be won over once
the “proof of concept” has been established in
Australia.
We agreed that the “Kingdom of God” simply
means “doing things God’s way” and therefore if
“Your Kingdom come”, and “Your will be done”,
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then business people would need to do business
God’s way for a Sheep Nation to be developed.
Finally to achieve this objective we need people
who believe it is doable and that we have no
other option – THIS MUST BE DONE. This was
agreed in our round table group.
PRISM
P – Potential Key Objective
To create Sheep nation per Matt 25:31-33.
R- Rewards
If we can build a sheep nation all residents of this
nation will benefit - unemployment down to 1%,
unfunded liabilities down to zero, homelessness
down to zero, domestic violence eliminated, sex
slavery and human trafficking eliminated, crime
reduced, substance abuse reduced, suicide
eliminated, etc.
I – Implications
The current “Babylonian” system of economics is
broken. We all felt a foretaste of this in the 2008
GFC. This failed system is combined with a
Western Church built on Greek Philosophy rather
than Hebraic roots. Only a re-formation of church
and marketplace can usher in the Kingdom
foundations of a Sheep nation that prepares the
way for the return of Christ.
S – Solutions
Three objectives to be reached in five years
Objective 1)
To activate Kingdom Leaders
In order to achieve these outcomes we need the
support and participation of a significant number
of kingdom thinking Business, Professional and
Civic Leaders across the domains of the nation.
We need to reach a tipping point in the changing
of business culture whereby there is sufficient
participation to become normal to ensure that
business is done God’s way. In other words
people prosper in every transaction. This is by far
the most crucial stage.
Business people have to significantly change the
way they do business, the way they structure
deals and transactions, the way they apportion
profits, the way they formulate, state, and
articulate their vision and mission statements and
the way they structure the shareholding of their
companies.
So how can this be achieved?
Suggestions from the group:
 Lecturing at KI
 Church business groups
 Conferences
 Private meetings – one on ones that are
missing
 Social Media
 Websites
 Radio, TV
 Peak bodies and industry groups
 MOVIES
 Teach them what it means
 Show them what it looks like
 Get them to understand and engage their
assignments.
 To get the Kings to operate righteously.
 Teach them to work in multiples.
 To get to know their enemy – mammon,
pride, lust for power
 Do it through TESTIMONY as well as theory.
In other words to entirely change their business
culture in the marketplace to that of sharing,
gleaning, ensuring that everyone prospers.
Objective 2)
To address the great social and moral problems
facing our nation:
 Unemployment
 Poverty
 Homelessness
 Crime
 Family breakdown and domestic violence
 Unsustainable debt
 Unfunded Liabilities
 REFUGEES
 Prison recidivism
 Sex slavery
 Suicide
 Drugs
 Alcohol and substance abuse
 And the new buzzword – Radicalisation
So how will we do this?
In the interests of time we narrowed it down to
unemployment, poverty, and homelessness
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Suggestions from the group
 Governments have tried to deal with this by
raising taxes or cutting expenditure – cannot
possibly work when the ratio of workers to
non-workers is declining.
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CREATE ENTERPRISE
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Entrepreneurial training for the unemployed
and the poor.
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STOP CREATING POOR PEOPLE BY RIPPING
THEM OFF IN EVERY DEAL by changing the
way we do deals.
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Margins are too high – farmers get nothing
and Woolworths gets rich.
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Cash cows – develop systems of funding that
will provide income to sustain Kingdom
initiatives during their early years.
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faiths that have more than 3 children per
couple.
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Adoption instead of Abortion
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Christian initiatives to be prevalent
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KLs to play a big part in keeping alive tuition
on the principles of the Kingdom of God.
M – “MOVEMENT”
 Many of the participants want to attend KI to
get “activated” and learn how to be part of
implementing these changes to culture.
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Micro funding, which does work in Australia
by the way.
Possibilities for this Objective
To commence the process of bringing vast
amounts of water to central Australia with a view
to building infrastructure, businesses, cities and
towns. This will create prosperity which will deal
with our problems of an aging population and a
lack of a domestic market.
Website address to learn the ways and
means of really doing business God’s way,
and then teach it to their own groups
Unfortunately we ran out of time and not enough
emphasis was placed on formulating strategy in
these group discussions.
Business Domain – 2
Julie Roche
GM Shekinah Tours & Conferences
PRISM
P – Potential Key Objective
Objective 3)
To increase the population and ensure the new
culture of the Kingdom of God is taught and
practiced.
So how can we achieve this?
Suggestions from the group:
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Immigration – bring in skilled labour.
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Refugees - bring in the refugees that the Lord
is so concerned about. It was stressed this
does not refer to people who crash our
borders but to genuine refugees who are
willing to contribute to society by adopting
the principles of the new culture and working
towards a common goal.
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Domestic population growth – reproduction.
This would require a culture change towards
valuing posterity rather than the here and
now and instant gratification. A long
discussion was held on how we are ruled by
mammon and we are too focused on the
costs of raising children rather than the value
of having children to perpetuate God’s vision.
We are below the fertility rate and need to
get above it or lose our culture to competing
God at the core of the business - blessing, peace,
impacting, flourishing, relationships, family,
community, manifestation of the fruits of the
Holy Spirit.
 No separation between God and work life
 Integrity, abide by the principles of God
 Key role in alleviating systematic poverty
 Work is God given
 Work is good, flourishing in value, meaning
and purpose.
 Importance of identifying the role of coworkers
 Stimulate our senses
 Every person finding their place in the
Kingdom
 Leader’s responsibility to mentor workers
 Example of Singapore Company, grooming
the fathers to look after the family
 Spirit of excellence, put others ahead of
ourselves.
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R – Rewards
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Business points the way to the Kingdom of
God for both non-believers and believers
Employees enjoy coming to work, huge
impact on families, customers and clients
Seeing God's work in our work in abundance
with miracles
Everyone finds their God given place in God's
local and global community
People will want to give what they have got.
Life and purpose, relationship restored and
flourishing, true happiness the Shalom peace.
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M – Movement
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I - implications
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Pride - not giving glory to God
Power and Money - abuse, disintegration of
values, relationships.
Backsliding - turning away from God. Losing
their God given vision leading to destruction
Personal wilderness
People being left behind - intimidation,
indifference, resisting change, unbelief, lack
of vision and passion.
S – Solutions
Church and Business - revelation of marketplace
with church leadership revelation:
 Everyone is a disciple in the frontline
 Co-dependency with church to all domains
 Business people come together in prayer and
stand in the gap focusing on the reign of
God.
 How can Christian Business align with
Jeremiah 1:10 NKJV See, I have this day set you over the nations
and over the kingdoms, to root out and to
pull down, to destroy and to throw down,
to build and to plant.
 Live out the principles of the Kingdom in the
marketplace
 Reject ungodly, unfair & unethical practices
 Build up and plant transparency, justice and
righteousness
 Give something back, add value, be the truth,
with staff and customers. Create external
interest in business, media, etc.
 Broaden Kingdom influence to all
businesses - iron sharpens iron
 Encouragement, testimony, accountability,
bring correction, fathering
Discipling and supporting other businesses
encourage businesses in trouble.
Transformation starts with us in the secret
place.
Act of faith - vision for our business
Transform our business around Jer. 1:10
Repentance and holistic attitudes
Our business becomes an example to others
Multiplying Effect – Extend discipling, going
out to others, equipping others.
Need to have a platform, through
our networks and structure with follow up.
Business Domain – 3
Rod St Hill
Dean of Business
Christian Heritage College
Key Scripture: Eph 4:11-16*
Those who are involved in training, equipping and
mentoring Christians called to business are
‘teachers’ whose role is ‘equipping the saints for
the work of ministry’ for the purpose of ‘growth
of the body (of Christ)’.
*While the Greek ties the two titles, ‘pastor’
and ‘teacher’ closely together here, elsewhere
they are listed separately (see Rom 12:7 and 1
Pet 5:2).
Key Function of Business
The key function of the institution of business is
production and trade. The meaning of the
Hebrew word ‘Canaan’, is ‘merchant’ or ‘traffic’
(Strong’s #3667). ‘The people will curse him who
withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head
of him who sells it’ (Prov 11:26, NKJV). Business is
integral to the Kingdom.
Business also needs to make a positive
contribution to servicing/developing/growing the
community/culture.
20 Year Key Objective
By 2035 there will be a conscious, close
partnership between pastors, ministers and
teachers involved in:
1) training, equipping and mentoring those
called to business;
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2) equipping them for their work of ministry in
the business domain;
3) building the church as both the body of Christ
and as local churches.
These objective are potentially measurable via
the National Church Life Survey
(http://www.ncls.org.au/ ) or
McCrindle Research:
(http://mccrindle.com.au/ ).
b. Acknowledge the value of employees
and other stakeholders;
c. Support the vision of the local church
priest / pastor / minister;
d. Invest in the local community; and
e. Fund the issues of society (see
Business Domain Group 1 above).
I – Implications
PRISM
P – Potential Key Objective
Those called to business will be ‘healthy disciples’
who are functioning in the marketplace following
Kingdom principles, evidenced by a culture of
honour, and who are discipling others.
Healthy disciples are identified by their:
 Commitment to a culture of honour (see
Danny Silk, A Culture of Honour)1;
 Commitment to their God-given ministry /
assignment in the marketplace;
 Consistent functioning according to the
Kingdom system as opposed to the
Babylonian system (see Business Domain
Group 1 above);
 Daily dynamic relationship with the Lord,
filled with and led by the Holy Spirit; and
 Fellowship with other Christians of the same
heart and passion, e.g. they are engaged in a
SEAM group (for Support, Encouragement,
and Accountability as they tease out the full
meaning and methods of their God-given
Mission)
R – Rewards
1. Kingdom businesses will support the Holy
Spirit do His work in our nation;
2. Advancement of John 17 unity. As more
Christians called to business connect with
one another they will influence priests /
pastors / ministers to understand the role of
business in God’s great mission on earth,
which is the redemption and transformation
of individuals, social institutions (such as
business) and social structures (such as the
economic and financial system); and
3. Business profit (fruit of labour – see Ps 128:2,
Ecc 5:18-20) will be available to:
a. Bless the business owner;
1. More businesses belong to the Kingdom,
fewer belong to Babylon (Satan)
2. For us personally there is commitment of
time, energy and possibly our own financial
resources to train, equip and mentor more
Christians called to business – it probably
requires as many as ten sessions per year for
each business person. This implies a shortage
of business coaches.
S – Solutions
Note: Lack of time prevented a detailed analysis
of solutions, so the group focused on what could
be done over the next year or so.
Beginning immediately, we are committed to
modelling a culture of honour between ourselves
and our own priest / pastor/ minister. As we
model a culture of honour, we will be
empowered to teach authentically about honour
as we train / mentor / equip those who are called
to business. In particular, we aim to coach
Christians called to business to get over past
hurts and concerns in relation to ‘church’ (e.g.
the perception or reality of the sacred–secular
divide or the hierarchy of occupations in which
pastoral and ‘helping’ professions are
hierarchically superior to business, politics and
other vocational calls).
M – Movement
1. We commit in the next year to be discipled by
our own pastor / minister, especially in the
area of honour.
2. We take ownership of the problem of the
Christians called to business who are
estranged from the church and will seek to
affirm them by:
a. Being in fellowship with them;
b. Seeking to connect them with other
Christians called to business;
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c. Leading them to accept that theirs is
‘God’s business’; and
d. Robustly defending profit as a good thing
when earned with justice, kindness and
humility and used as per point 3 under
the heading Rewards above.
3. We commit, in our varied contexts as
trainers, equippers and mentors, to helping
business people tease out what the kingdom
looks like in their specific contexts.
Movement


There was no concrete joint commitment
from Church pastors or leaders to
intentionally activate this process in the near
future, although individual pastors are
intentionally training and activating their
members.
We are hoping to touch base with all Pastors
in attendance to see if we can reiterate the
objective and get greater traction.
Church – 2
Church - 1
Rev. Dr John Yates
Unbreakable Nets
Dr Sean Morris
Senior Pastor, Grow Church
Context
Jesus wants to protect the Church from itself so
that his Father can enjoy a fully mature family
(Eph 4:13-14). This was the message I was
hearing from the Spirit at the GME conference in
Melbourne and it involves a call to be at rest and
never accuse one another.
P – Potential Key Objective
Intentional in equipping the members of our
churches to be able to share their faith with
colleagues in their workplace.
Rewards
The rewards are the lost get saved, the believers
become fruitful, the local Church grows and the
Kingdom is advanced.
Remember
Negative implications if this is not done:
 Believers are not equipped to engage their
world with the hope that is within them
 The lost within their workplace don't
potentially have the opportunity for salvation
 The believer remains unfruitful
 The Church doesn't grow
 The Kingdom of God is not advanced.
Almost every major reformation and revival
movement has suffered from severe divisions.
This is true for the Protestant Reformation, the
Welsh revival, the follow up from Azusa Street
and so on. When a pastor in Argentina witnessed
a great falling away after a city revival he
commented; “There were too many holes in the
net.” The “net” he was referring to was the
relationships between Christian leaders. Given
the general lack of unity across the Australian
Church a tearing of nets with a great loss of fish is
the probable future of any significant move of
God. This can be prevented.
Solution
Intensity


An intensification of spiritual warfare is coming
that will stretch every relational strain in the
Church to breaking point. Satan is about to try to
flood the church with lies, blasphemies and a
torrent of accusation (Rev 12). Whatever the cost,
when the people of God suffer together under
satanic attack and refuse to accuse one another,
no matter what, the victory of the kingdom of
God is assured. Such maturity requires a new
vision of Jesus.
Implications



Preaching on topic in Sunday Services
Seminars focused on training the believer in
how to share their faith at work
Simple framework outlining activities to
enable to engagement of colleagues at work
Focused prayer for workplace colleagues
Commitment to build relationally with those
in your sphere of influence.
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imposed at the outset. More work needed to
be done on the prior understandings of key
challenges in the field, as had been indicated
pre-conference.
Looking To Jesus
“Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfector of
faith, who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is
seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”
(Heb 12:2). Jesus’ faith has been perfected so
that he is completely rested with his Father
sharing the one throne of God (Rev 22:1, 3). This
rest was achieved through the suffering of the
cross, where nothing could break the relational
connection between Father and Son (Heb 13:13).
Today we are called to sit at rest with Jesus in the
heavenlies (Eph 2:6). His seat bears all the weight
of responsibility concerning his kingdom and
leads us into perfect peace (Isa 26:3; 2 Cor 5:10;
Heb 4:16)
Supernatural Nets
Whilst the disciples still contended over who of
them was the greatest the “nets” into which
Jesus would supernaturally send lost souls “were
breaking” (Luke 5:6). After the death and
resurrection of Jesus the apostles understood
that greatness with God only comes through
mutual sacrificial service and “the net was not
torn.” (John 21:11). The network of relationships
where brothers and sisters resolve to suffer
together without striving for superiority is
unbreakable. “When the net is at rest in the love
of the Father it will never break.”
Conclusion
The only striving we need to be committed to is
the striving to enter God’s rest (Heb 4:11). Such
perfect rest comes only as “we look to Jesus”
resting at the right hand of power (Heb 12:2). In a
place of such exalted rest we will never accuse
one another, the nets will not break and the
catch will not be lost.
Education Domain
Neville Carr with Gordon Preece, Dawn
Penny and Paul de Mare
After some inconclusive discussion about a key
objective, the group divided into a schools and a
tertiary sub-group. Several factors militated
against a unified approach and outcome:
b) Too much time on Friday was spent outside
domain groups (testimonies particularly),
leaving a mere three and a half hours over the
day for serious work. There was also a very
strong awareness of ‘culture wars’ in
education between secular and Kingdom
world views. This neglects creation theology,
that God’s Spirit is the Creator, and works
through common grace among non-Christians
made in God’s image and working in various
institutions and spheres, including education.
c) The education sector has a wide range of
services on offer. All professions and trades
carry within them both an educational and
training function, whether through the TAFE,
VET or university providers – not to mention
U3A. Many professional groups offer inservice education or professional
development for members (e.g. Australian
College of Educators, CEO Institute), alongside
similar programmes run internally by
companies. Adult Education Associations,
financial service or banking groups, health and
rehab agencies provide education
programmes for interested parties. Media
outlets (e.g. Times Education Supplement) and
TV networks offer a plethora of online
educational programmes and services (e.g.
radio for the visually impaired,
monergism.com, Teacher Vision, etc). Sports
clubs and AA run drug and alcohol education
programmes. Corporates employ chaplains or
consultants to inject moral values education
and counselling services for employees.
Marriage education groups exist in most cities.
How to bring about a gospel influence across
such a broad field over the next 20 years requires
a wider range of skills and experience and a
longer period of careful research and prayerful
reflection than such a conference allowed or
intended. However a productive start was
undoubtedly made. Even from the twin
perspectives of schools and Bible Colleges that
were the focus of the group discussion, much
more time was needed.
Time did not permit proper discussion of
Christian Higher Education providers, as well as
Bible Colleges, such as CHC, Tabor, Alphacrucis,
Avondale, Vose, Wesley Institute, Malyon, Ridley,
a) This was the first time we’d come together for
such an enterprise. A fairly demanding, nonnegotiable agenda and reporting format were
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Sheridan, even ACU. Through the faculties other
than ministry or explicit theology, these
institutions are engaged in equipping the saints
for the work of the ministry in the marketplace,
arguably more so than Bible Colleges and
seminaries.
Regarding Christian schools, there is an argument
that since around 90% of teachers in those
schools were educated in the public university
system, their worldviews may not be (and usually
aren’t) a clear, biblical, Christian worldview. One
suggested strategy for addressing this gap is to
resource and provide greater professional
development by the Christian Higher Ed
institutions for teachers in both Christian and
non-Christian schools on worldview and what it
means to teach a Kingdom of God world view.
PRISM
P - Potential Key Objective
Abraham sought to teach his children and
grandchildren to ‘keep the way of the Lord by
doing righteousness and justice’, and thereby
bring about the promises God had made to him
(Gen 18.19). Jesus himself described a fulfilling
life in terms of knowing God and his Son (John
17.3). The desire of God for his people, Jesus said,
was for us to love God with heart, soul, mind and
strength and our neighbour as our self (Mark
12.30f). Paul saw the goal of his ministry as
presenting ‘everyone mature in Christ’ (Col 1.28),
taking ‘every thought captive in obedience to
Christ’ (2 Cor 10.5), and equipping the saints ‘for
the work of service,’ and ultimately for Christian
‘maturity’ (Eph 4.12f). The author of Hebrews
identified maturity as having one’s ‘faculties
trained by practice to distinguish good from evil’
(Heb 5.14).
In light of such texts, a key purpose for Christians
in education might be to create curricular and
instructional strategies and programmes which
help learners and teachers in the many and
varied educational and social contexts, to:
1.
2.
know God and make him known in a postChristian and secular-pluralistic age and
culture
distinguish good from evil, take every
thought captive in obedience to Christ, and
pursue justice and right conduct
3.
4.
equip others for the work of service as
Christ’s ambassadors in every sphere of life
grow in maturity, godliness and wisdom.
As mentioned at the outset, if we’d had a wider
representation of educational leaders from
additional strands of education (formal, informal
and non-formal), we might easily have generated
a different statement of purpose than this one.
The starting point for the schools sub-group was
Genesis 18:19:
“In a pluralistic society to encourage the
people of God to have intentional dialogue
on Christian Education in schools and the
wider community.”
The concept of “Christian education” needs to be
unpacked more - is it teaching the tenets of our
faith, the values coming out of these, or a biblical
world view? Is it applying Christian doctrine,
beliefs and values within each subject or
discipline?
R - Rewards
Society and the environment benefit because
God’s beneficent rule restores order and
harmony to an otherwise distorted and selfdestructive world – e.g. marital conflict, child
abuse, ethnic tensions, inequity, greed,
deception, fraud, global warming and
deforestation, rape, war, etc. Individual Christians
are released from the oppressive weight of
clericalism and parochialism, whereby their skills
and gifts are released for ministry in their various
spheres of public life – e.g. priestly, prophetic and
pastoral role of parents in the home, of workers
in factories, offices, schools, etc. Their lives
become letters of Christ, ‘known and read by all’
(2 Cor 3.2f). The schools sub-group added, ‘each
person should know they are unique, valued and
loved and have a purpose in life, beyond
themselves. Spirituality will be released if we are
intentional about forming relationships based on
trust and invitation’. Church attendance
increases as deeper connections are made
through educational structures (sermons, small
groups, pastoral visits, etc) between faith and
experience (Sunday-Monday). Theological
institutions attract a wider range of enrolees who
sign up for programmes that empower them as
parents, workers, community organisers,
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journalists, bankers, etc., to apply the gospel to
their particular callings.
I - Implications
All believers are called to know Christ and to
make him known, both of which involve lifelong
learning and teaching responsibilities. Pursuing
righteousness and justice involves careful
observation of the balance of power and wealth
in local and global contexts, advocacy on behalf
of and cooperation with the oppressed or
powerless, as well as the inevitable opposition
from existing power-brokers and gatekeepers.
Christians in educational agencies (e.g. schools,
TAFE colleges, Adult Education organisations) will
no doubt meet with opposition as they develop
credible alternatives in curricula and pedagogies
which place God at the centre of all learning, and
build theological links between faith, reason and
morality in all subjects and disciplines2. Even
within educational structures of the church –
theological and bible colleges, church schools,
missionary training institutions, for example –
attempts to change historical patterns of
instruction, not to mention the centuries-old
divinity curriculum (OT, NT, Church History,
Dogmatics, Philosophy), will be a challenge for
curriculum innovators!
Especially in public institutions we need to equip
Christians to place the question of God within a
pluralistic context as of public significance,
confident that the truth of the Gospel can win
through. We can no longer presume on
Christendom. But like Paul in Acts 17 in Athens,
we can seek, and often succeed in getting a
second, sympathetic hearing. A further challenge
will be to redefine theological education or
ministry formation in terms of its core biblical
function of equipping, which is an educational
function.
The schools sub-group added: The schools are
controlled by DET, and currently there is a
restricted space in schools for Christian
Education, with DET happy to remove it, if they
could overturn legislation. Domains will need to
2
A recent inaugural address by the Vice Chancellor of
ACU (Melbourne), Professor Greg Craven makes this
same connection, while acknowledging a debt to
Cardinal Newman’s classic book, ‘The Idea of a
University’:
work together (‘convergence’), to counter this.
Christian politicians and parents will need to
speak out or join school councils - to exercise
influence (our opponents are doing this already!).
Churches should express support, otherwise this
space will disappear. People of God need to move
into positions of influence in each domain,
including media, to influence opinion (what other
faiths and atheists are doing). Christians will
become more active in communities, fulfilling
their God-given mandates, joining school
councils/bodies of influence, and being
intentional about building relationships with nonChristians. But such a radical change has
enormous implications for current missional and
educational strategies in mainline denominations
and church-based agencies. There will be
opposition from non-Christian groups, secularists,
atheists, lobby groups, particularly in a time
where compromise seems the preferred route
rather than standing up for one’s beliefs.
S - Solutions
One possible starting point could be with what is
already known to be happening in particular
educational spheres – e.g. bible and theological
colleges (e.g. ANZATS, AJMS conferences),
Christian and church schools, educational
agencies with denominational and crossdenominational programmes in schools or
universities (e.g. Youth Works, ACCESS Ministries,
Scripture Union – in schools; AFES, Student Life,
Campus Crusades, SCM, Navigators, Newman
Society – universities). A theological colleges
Lausanne Occasional Paper 40 on Marketplace
Ministry has a section on theological education to
equip the laity for their work in the world. The
Lausanne & Theology of Work groups have also
had meetings with Asian & US theological
educators in 2013 & 14. The Kern Family
Foundation is funding much of this. We can build
on these rather than reinventing the wheel.
Gordon Preece is meeting with Brendan Roach to
discuss some forms of cooperation between
Ethos and them; and also with Tim Meyer of MST.
http://www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/our_university/go
vernance/office_of_the_vicechancellor2/the_idea_of_an_australian_catholic_univ
ersity
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Movement in the area of equipping laity in
colleges can begin with a topical talk, an elective
and then a regular course, which can be melded
into a wide range of subjects at the core of the
curriculum. This can take a decade or more, but
it’s the model used at Macquarie School of
Applied Finance, and to some extent at Ridley.
The Macquarie Christian Studies Institute, though
now defunct, is also worth examining3.
Ethos is publishing an edition of Zadok
Perspectives on Education & Inequality in June to
which Neville Carr, Gordon Preece & others in our
group will contribute. This is in cooperation with
the Melbourne Anglican SRC which Gordon
chairs, which will be reporting to Synod in
October regarding this issue.
A significant step forward overall might involve
bringing together the principals (e.g. Christian
schools, bible colleges) or heads of such groups,
to begin a status review process that focuses on
the key purpose statement above. This might
involve some research into the ideological, social
and moral impact of these institutions on the
structures of Australian society and on its
spiritual and moral condition. Such a process
could evoke a new synergy within the Church and
erode the old silo mentality across different
Christian agencies.
Once again, such solutions reflect the
composition and span of competence of group
participants.
M - Movement
There may be a willingness among a few from the
education group, but hopefully from a more
representative cohort outside the conference and
Melbourne, to arrange an initial meeting:
4. with high profile Christian educationists and
academics (seeking advice as to government
policy, trends in education – e.g. Profs Barry
McGaw, Kevin Donnelly)
5. with leading journalists with education
portfolios (e.g. The Australian, etc.), also those
with an anti-Christian bias (e.g. Philip Adams)
6. with heads of agencies working on campuses
(e.g. AFES, Campus Crusades)
7. with domain group leaders who are interested
in accessing educational skills and resources,
for the purpose of equipping their own
cohorts for achieving key purposes
8. with pastors, as they search for more effective
ways of achieving the latter.
The School sub-group made several suggestions:
1. Identify the churches that have equipped and
released their congregation to serve the
community, building relationships with nonChristians;
2. Ask these churches to share their model with
other churches, meeting with Heads of
churches.
3. Create resources to assist churches to
empower, equip and release their
congregations to be people of God in each
setting, building relationship with nonChristians. ACCESS’s training institute (AMTI)
is developing a Community Service diploma to
equip folk to be released into the community.
Child safe courses are being developed.
4. Consider how media can influence and impact
society.
Family
1. with such groups as principals of bible and
theological colleges, Christian and church
schools across Australia
Brett Ryan
ED Focus on the Family
2. with heads of agencies working in government
schools via SRI, Chaplaincy, Prayer Groups in
Schools
Introduction
3. with Christian professional associations (e.g.
Nurses, Lawyers, Medics)
The value and importance of the family is
diminishing; divorce rates on the rise,
drug/alcohol abuse and antisocial behaviour
more evident, single parenting families increasing
3
Gordon has forwarded useful information here and
was Director of MCSI previously.
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and mental health issues occurring at
unprecedented levels can all be attributed to the
state of families across the nation.
We need to create a culture within our language
and actions to see the well-being and health of
the family unit restored as God originally
intended. This is singly the most important
institution that requires immediate and urgent
attention (both inside and outside the four walls
of the church) to ensure the other domains reach
their God given objectives and potential.

Decrease stress/increase health (spiritually,
physically, emotionally)

Academic / creativity improvement

Decrease drug/alcohol dependence and other
addictions

Decrease on government dependency
support/”handouts” – ‘poverty’ mentality

Empowering people.
I – Implications
Multiple definitions of “what is the family?”

Multiculturalism

Lack of “ownership” – who is responsible?
Self?

Parent abdication

Measure success

Inadequate Education - lack of teaching

Poor positive role model

Message forum

Require finical support / sponsorship
Top Convergence Objective

Skills – human, equipment.
To celebrate and restore the importance and
value of the family.
S – Solutions
Top Three Domain Objectives
1. To celebrate and restore the importance and
value of the family
2. To create an environment of being informed
and equipped in how to have healthy
relationships;
3. To create an environment of being informed
and equipped in how to be more effective in
parenting.

“Back to the table” – series of community
service advertisements (CSA’s 30-60 second)
to encourage families to turn technology off
and return to the family meal table and reengage with one another with meaningful
conversation.

M- meet
E – eat
A – all participate
L – love/ learn / laugh / listen

Viral campaign via social media, regional TV,
Christian TV, churches, parachurch /other
NFP

Aim for 1-2 meals together per week to
increase over time

Create website – helpful content
To see this achieved will require the intentional
collaboration and multifaceted approach of
multiple domain leaders - religion, business,
media, government, NFP/welfare and education.
PRISM
P – Potential Key Objective
To celebrate and restore the value of the family.
R – Rewards
Strengthen relationships as follows:

Strengthen relationships

Build healthy identity / self esteem

Increase productivity - $, quality, national
economic improvement, increase
employment

Decrease antisocial behaviour – crime,
vandalism, domestic violence, sexual
promiscuity, teenage pregnancy, STD’s
M – Movement

Intergenerational support/legacies – practical
support, economic, social, spiritual

Outward focus – attitude of generosity

Builds stability/order/security

Launch March 2015 CSA’s, utilise connections
with organisations such as COACH, CAP,
Mainly Music, MOPS, Kids Hope, Chaplaincy,
Access, SU, CMN, ACCTV.

Develop website –
http://www.backtothetable.org.au
launch March 2015
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

App- Conversation starters – “How to start a
conversation with your kids/spouse?”
Seek financial support to ‘buy’ air time,
Billboards, literature/postcards
Government Domain
Group Synopsis
P – Potential Key Objective
Human flourishing.
R - Rewards
The Common good
I - Implications
Diminishes those against human flourishing.
S - Solution
Normalising Christian political engagement.
M - Movement
Everyone doing their own part (Eph 4:16),
cultural and political change effected.
Prime Objective
What would this look like in 20 years?
• Majority of Christians engaging with their
MPs with regards to current issues.
• Increased percentage of Christian members
of political parties and elected to Parliament
• Churches proactively engaging with
politicians to develop relationships through
initiatives such as prayer support, issuespecific conferences, shared policy
development/knowledge sites
• Increased Christian worldview in the Media
with positive and strong coverage of
Christian events (especially during Easter and
Christmas) and Christian advocacy even
sought by the Media.
• Communication strategies in place to provide
“Issues/ Fact Sheets” to stakeholders.
• Politicians regularly invited and attend
church/Christian events i.e. inductions for
politicians, Church openings.
• Maximum attendance at events such as the
National Day of Prayer and the church
service at the opening of Parliament.
• Public acknowledgement of people who have
contributed to Australia’s Christian heritage.
Health Domain
To normalise Christian political engagement.
In order to work towards this goal we should
focus on promoting the theology of political
engagement (Matt 28:19) to help change current
mindsets in institutions such as churches, schools,
and Bible colleges.
Educating Christians in their rich heritage and the
apologetics of current issues will be vital to
encourage increased Christian involvement.
Additionally, the development of advocacy skills
and how to argue in methodical and intellectual
ways will be of great importance.
Motivation to act and become more politically
engaged will be a result of initiatives supporting
leadership development, committee
engagement, mobilising Pastors and/or
connecting with MPs.
Jason Ong and Clement Lo
Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of
Australia
The conference provided strong support and
future backing for Dr Lachlan Dunjey of Medicine
with Morality. The need to bring correction to
the abortion laws, especially in Victoria, came up
many times during the conference with specific
reference to Ezekiel 9 and 16:20.
The main aim of CMDFA is to equip Christian
health workers to integrate their faith into their
practice. Part of our strategy is to commission
health care workers for apostolic mission and to
build prayer groups for Kingdom work in each
major hospital in Victoria.
The effects of everyone playing their part cannot
be understated.
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preferred major party as No.2 to a Christian party
as No.1, they still don’t use their vote this way.
Dr Lachlan Dunjey
Foundation principle.
I saw the main purpose of this specific meeting
was to develop a way ahead for transformational
change in our nation and to spearhead/catalyse
this by cooperation between domain leaders and
church leaders – recognising that it is not
happening just through the latter.
Biblical basis
we are created in the Image of God.
R – Rewards
PRISM
P – Potential Key Objective
The main issue of progressive moral degeneration
of our nation away from our “Christian” heritage.
Permission for evil is progressively given and is
progressively becoming mandatory in practice
(permission becomes compulsion) with
progressive loss of freedom in being able to
speak against it (becomes labelled as
discrimination and “hate-speech”) or even
uphold what we believe to be foundational truth.
At stake here is our freedom to believe, to speak
of what we believe and to teach what we
believe – even with our children. Increasing
restriction for Christians is forecast as well as
being discriminated against and marginalised.
Medicine is on the frontline of these battles: the
preservation of what it means to be human and
created in the Image of God manifest in the
intrinsic value of all human life, marriage and
family designed by God; freedom to believe, and
freedom to practice medicine in accord with our
conscience.
The institutional church has failed to:



Christian organisations have taken action and we
thank God for the opportunity to be involved
alongside wonderful organisations like Family
Voice Australia, Saltshakers, Endeavour Forum,
Australian Christian Lobby, Australian Family
Association, and Christian political parties – CDP,
Australian Christians, DLP and Family First.
realise the threat
have a voice
have a political voice in highlighting evil
agendas,
 support those who do have a voice
 teach Christian responsibility in voting
including how to use the preferential voting
system to counteract evil.
Even when Christians say they understand
preferential voting and understand that they do
not lose their first preference if they put their
 In this age of rapid scientific and technological
change to preserve traditional medical ethics
consistent with the absolute values in God’s
design for mankind.
 Ethical medicine to be at the forefront of
these challenges. This includes the
preservation of liberty for medical
professionals to hold these values so that they
can practise medicine according to their
conscience.
 The recovery of truly informed consent
especially with respect to the currently
disputed and hushed risks of abortion.
 Ethical medicine as a clear voice for truth in
public health and society and the preservation
of this liberty.
 The preservation of marriage as between male
and female and the importance of the family
unit as being the basis of a healthy society.
I – Implications
Christian doctors need to join together in defence
of what we believe to be fundamental ethics
because of the severity of the attack on the
future of medicine that includes:
 the progressive devaluation of what it means
to be human
 the threat to liberty of conscience in practice
 the pressure to conform medicine to the
demands of consumers and government.
Further, we need to be involved in professional
organisations that have influence. We need to be
at the top of our many domains within medicine.
CMDFA to continue to be strong in being, and
further develop, an Ethical Voice.
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S – Solutions
1. Awaken the “Sleeping Giant”.
This need hasn’t changed over the last 20 years.
We can change the direction of our country in
just four years if Christians wake up to:
a. the dangers facing us – the Chronicle of Shame
and where we should be going
b. the need for corporate grief (Ezek 9) and the
need for passionate prayer – the church in
Victoria needs to weep!
c. for spiritual awakening (more than good
works, programming, events, feel good
congregations)
d. to be a Voice - and sometimes to clear the
moneychangers out of the temple
e. the need to teach God’s people how to vote.
This is as a Christian responsibility to increase
the 2% impact to 10%. Is this possible?
Probably not until persecution and
discrimination against Christians is more
rampant. Will we wake in time? Very doubtful.
Am I saying we are beyond revival? Can
pastors be revived in this critical sense of
Christian responsibility? Maybe not – maybe
the change has to come through the lay
church – is that what we are trying to do with
this marketplace connection?
f. Encouragement of church professionals in
their work and organisations.
g. Identifying and then writing to Christians
within their domains, informing them of our
prayers and support for them to be a Voice for
righteousness within their domain
h. How? Blogging, preaching, website
promotion, networking (TCN, Transforming
Sydney) BUT, the church including Christian
doctors do not commit.
2. Political
a. Clapham strategy to existing MPs by
formation of teams. Dream: To have a team of
people/doctors full time or half-time to
target/educate/mentor/pastor MPs and other
significant people in matters of national
ethics, medical ethics in particular, public
health and health of the family.
c. Appoint people to run for parliament and
mentor and encourage them.
d. Private member’s bill every year to repeal
section 8 on abortion.
3. Professional
a. Build the capability to defend the critical areas
of liberty of conscience, truth in public health,
informed consent and all human life in all
areas of dependency and disability from
fertilisation to life’s natural end:
abortion; euthanasia; physician assisted
suicide; destructive embryo research; cloning;
embryo selection and eugenics including
Down Syndrome genocide; sex-selective
abortion and abortion for minor easilycorrectible abnormalities; babies accidentally
born alive after abortion procedure and left to
die; after-birth abortion (infanticide); and we
could add chimeras – mixing of human and
animal genes – and cyborgs – integrating bioengineering for enhancement.
b. Influencing current professional organisations
by participation, encouraging those already
involved and encouraging others to be
involved.
c. Getting Medical Defence organisations onside
re: Liberty of Conscience in practice and
informed consent particularly with respect to
abortion risks including post-abortion
syndrome, breast cancer and prematurity with
its own risks e.g. cerebral palsy. These are
basically insurance organisations but have
taken a role in preventive education.
d. Work towards formation of competing
professional organisations as in USA with the
American Association of ProLife Obstetricians
and Gynecologists and the American College
of Paediatricians.
e. Mentoring a new generation of doctors
f. Increasing our public voice in ethical issues
and a specific voice in matters of public health
in society
g. Within individual practices – promote the
conversation with declarations on the wall etc.
M – Movement – Make it happen
Re: 1) Waken God’s People
b. Continue to make submissions, give evidence
 Activate Pastors via GME
– further develop Medicine with Morality –
 Increase exposure of
also open to Allied Health practitioners:
http://www.chooselifeaustralia.org.au/
http://www.medicinewithmorality.org.au/.
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
Involve Media and web people to achieve this
Re: 2) Political
 Private members bill every year to repeal S8 –
every year highlighting the evils in the bill
contact
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Activate pastors to be political and
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Teach people how to use preferential voting
system.
Justice Domain
Andrea Tokaji with Mark Mudri
and Derrick Toh
Fighting for Justice Foundation – ACT
Christian Legal Society Victoria
Summary of Group Discussion
Re: 3) Professional
 Further activate Medicine with Morality,
increase mass with letter to all members,
develop structure, use media person,
contacting US orgs re Facebook sharing,
employ a secretary when financially able,
handover to younger doctors
To walk in the righteousness of the Lord for the
sake of executing justice through encouraging
and enabling Kingdom lawyers nationally with a
global focus to:
 ensure freedom rules of law
 religious freedom
 that protection of the dignity of all people is
upheld with integrity.

Influencing professional organisations,
encouraging Christian doctors participation
and encouraging those already involved –
mentoring breakfasts and IMPACT
conferences
Action

Within individual practices – join the
conversation, declarations on the wall

Clapham strategy to existing MPs by
formation of teams.
Transform/strengthen the health domain
from within by Christian involvement at the
highest levels.
1. He laments over injustice – especially the
poor and needy,
2. The day is ripe for judgement of those who
oppress the poor and the needy,
3. God relents when the righteous cries out
4. The sovereign Lord reveals His plans to His
saints,
5. God hears the cries of the righteous and sets
a plumb line of justice and righteousness
among His righteous.
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Immediate Convergence Objectives
1.
2.
3.
Waken God’s people/combined Domains
voice to awaken the church and have it
onside
Introduction
Make abortion unthinkable – first
incremental step Repeal S8; then the 24
amendments in order of priority (contact Dr
Eamonn Mathieson and Doctors in
Conscience and Drs Clement Lo and Jason
Ong of CMDFA Vic)
Preserve/re-instate Liberty of Conscience –
repeal Victorian Section 8.
Lachlan Dunjey 0407 937 513
http://medicinewithmorality.org.au
http://www.conscienceinmedicine.net.au/
http://chooselifeaustralia.org.au
http://www.doctors4family.com.au/
http://www.repealsection8.net.au/
http://thebeltoftruth.org.au
http://www.thepeoplescharter.net.au/
Influence culture within Legal/Justice profession
by coming into line with God’s call to us in the
Book of Amos:
Influencing culture
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Advocates International
Let’s do a “Nehemiah Stocktake” – identify
the stakeholders
Catalyst – Katya (Russian speaker)
IBA conference
Alliance Defence Freedom
Utilise Advocates International model to
replicate within Australia nationally.
Discussion
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Battle for the culture at law school - provide
Christian internship opportunities

Create a central point of view for Christian
students
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Challenges for the legal profession – provides
support for Christian lawyers Nationally
through network

Recognition of Christian foundation – find CJ

Organised more to do pro-bono / mentoring
in an organised way – Mobilise Christian
lawyers Nationally for matters that arise case
by case
Composition
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Run 3rd Australasian Legal Conference with
CPD
CLS organise to provide to church re legal
issues
Developing a mentoring programme
Vocational day / Career’s Day for lawyers
Top Convergence Objective
Mobilising Christian Lawyers to assist in various
matters, particularly in religious freedom, antitrafficking matters.
Timelines

Establish admin support team within 6 weeks

Set up accreditation of Conference prior to
Conference
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Austral-Asia Conference in 18 months
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National Network set up post- conference
Conclusions
Top Three Domain Objectives
1. Austral-Asia and National accredited Christian
Lawyers Conferences within next 18 months.
Impact Legal /Justice culture by creating Kingdom
identity, by being a Godly influence within our
Domain, by ensuring we are coordinated and
resourced, to be able to assist Churches, NGO’s
and Law Students, while determining to be a
catalyst for all His Kingdom blessings.
Actions
2. Establish Christian National network to
support, capacity build and mobilise
practitioners.
Stay in communication to establish core team.
3. Support Christian law students with
internships, career expos with Christian legal
options and ongoing mentoring
Media Domain
Nathan Brown
CEO Christian Media Australia
Domain Objectives
1. To Unite Christians in Media and the Arts, and
Foster a Community with a Culture of ‘Christlike’ Servant Leadership in all that we do. 2. To Serve Christians in Media and the Arts, and
Develop a Culture of Excellence and Value in
all that we do. 3. To Represent Christians in Media and the Arts,
and Provide a Significant Platform for Policy
and Regulatory Influence for our Community,
as well as Cultural Influence through our
Community. 4. To Connect Media Leaders with Christian
Leaders, and Community (& Government)
Leaders in the Mission of Redeeming Culture
and Restoring Humanity. 5. To Communicate the Hope of Jesus in any way
we can. 6. To Influence Culture: We long for the
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redemption and transformation of Australian
lives and culture.
PRISM
I - Implications
“No Choice” mantras - cultural groups, big
Business, Pro drug lobby groups – alcohol lobby
groups - i.e. AHA, Liquor Industry.
P – Point Key Objective
To see the redemption and transformation of
Australian lives and culture.
R – Rewards
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Empower the church to engage
To present the Christian world view as
credible
Empower believers to be a voice of influence
Church growth
Grow the church
Unity of the body
S – Solutions
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Rite of passage – the people who should be for
reduction are: law enforcement, emergency
services, hospital and medical staff, families,
victims of violence and other crime, government.
S - Solutions
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I – Implications
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enforcement and impacts individuals and the
community.
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Professionalise the Christian media
Train Christian Communicators for secular
media
Engage the church with media
Supply reduction
Demand reduction
Community and Family education:
 cognitive, affective and judicial domains
world view
 paradigm investigation and recalibration
 Faith/Philosophical/Ethical elements.
Cultural Change:
Role Modelling through community,
individuals, institutions, bureaucracy, media
and education.
M - Movement
M – Movement, make it happen
We did not reach this during our session.
However strategic initiatives are underway with
and through Christian Media Australia.
NFP/Welfare Domain
Shane Varcoe – Dalgarno Institute
Neil Meyer – Teen Challenge
Healthy Business support
Demand reduction must include inventory of
cultural values/worldview
Cultural inventory questions
 What are your values?
 What informs those values?
 What paradigm is that predicated on?
 Who or what is the ‘final authority’ in this
construct?
 Is that ‘final authority’ something that can be
applied society wide?
PRISM
Action - Initial Objectives
P - Potential Key Objective
Research
Reduce the use of Drugs and Alcohol in our
communities:
Resilient families don’t use drugs
Resilient Communities don’t need drugs!
To produce an evidence based paper on
community resilience, its sources and influences
Investigate/uncover extent and origins of selfmedication/hedonism (boredom v meaning)
and who is the final authority.
R - Rewards
By reducing demand for drugs and alcohol we
reduce harms, increase productivity, reduce
Government costs, reduce family and community
violence; deliver better physical health outcomes,
reduce mental health issues, reduces law
Who needs to contribute to the formation of
education and legislation? –
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beware ‘Trojan horse’ or ‘thin end of wedge’
processes that use ‘death’ or ‘compassion’
only to pass or produce one dimensional data
or laws that can later be used to manipulate
perception to manufacture a specious
consensus.
These methods need to be identified and
stopped from outset i.e. medical marijuana,
advertising/propaganda etc.
Education built on best practice and evidence
delivered through Schools, institutions and Media
Law makers, Medical practitioners, politicians,
community, church all need to be on board to
bring about social change
Produce Paper
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Each team member is to craft and submit
evidence based research data as to what
creates resiliency in either individuals or
family/community from their specific sector,
i.e. those working with homeless, AOD
Recovery sector, Christian Faith promoters,
Media groups, Medical and Legal (if involved)
To have the paper published and promoted in
academic, legal and political circles.
I – Implications
Churches will have to let go of people.
Churches will have to buy into an unencumbered
model of ministry. Religious people and
institutions will try and laden the ministry, avoid
the work of the holy spirit in mission and
legalise/professionalize the ministry of sports
chaplaincy.
S – Solutions
The best roads forward are to respond to where
God is moving, tell the local church, help the local
church, empower the local church, partner with
other agencies to propagate the Sports
Chaplaincy urban chaplaincy model.
M - Movement
Start movement, empower the local church to
reach its sports communities, train local people
through everywhere across the sports and
through denominations, agencies, regions and
churches. Have a very lean core, empower the
network to grow the network through the Centre
Bounce Team strategy.
Sport and Recreation Domain
Cam Butler
ED Sports Chaplaincy Australia
2035 Vision for Sports Chaplaincy Australia, based
on where God is moving in sport in Australia.
PRISM
P – Potential Key Objective
We will have many thousands of men and women
serving as pastoral carers in sports club and
communities around Australia. The church and
sport will come alive to each other and see each
other as valid partners not people competitors.
R - Rewards

Aussie sport will win through having
community builders in their clubs.
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Churches will win because they will see a
valid, effective urban form of ministry in the
community and it will shape other outbound
ministry within the church
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Appendix
Snapshot Illustration:
Mutiny on the Bounty
The English ship Bounty, commanded by the
Lieutenant William Bligh, journeyed to the South
Pacific in 1787 to collect plants of the breadfruit
tree. Sailors signed on gladly, considering the
voyage a trip to Paradise.
Having no second-in command, Captain Bligh
appointed his young friend Fletcher Christian to
the post. The Bounty stayed in Tahiti about 6
months and the sailors, led by happy-go-lucky
Fletcher Christian, enjoy paradise to the full.
When time came for departure some of the men
want to stay behind with island girls. Three men
were flogged for trying to desert.
The mood on the ship darkened and on 28 April
1789. Fletcher Christian staged the most famous
mutiny in history. Bligh and his supporters were
set adrift in an overloaded lifeboat.
The mutineers abroad the Bounty began
The community will win because they will see
quarrelling about what to do next. Christian
the practical and valid expression of grace
returned to Tahiti where he left some of the
and mercy en masse in their community
mutineers, kidnapped some women and took
through the role of sports chaplains.
some slaves and travelled 1000 miles to
uninhabited Pitcairn Island. There the little group
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quickly unravelled. They distilled whiskey from a
native plant. Drunkenness and fighting marked
their colony. Disease and murder eventually took
the lives of all men except for one, Alexander
Smith, who found himself the only man on the
island surrounded by an assortment of women
and children.
Then an amazing change occurred. Smith found
the Bounty’s neglected Bible. As he read it he
took its message to heart and began instructing
the little community. He taught the colonists the
Scriptures and helped them obey its instructions.
The message of Christ transform the lives of the
group.
Twenty years later in 1808 the Topaz landed on
the island and found a happy society of Christians
living in prosperity and peace, free from crime,
disease, murder and mutiny.
Later the Bible fell into the hands of a visiting
whaler who bought it to America. In 1950 it was
returned to the island where it now resides on
display in the church in Pitcairn as a monument
to its transforming message.
Morgan R.J, 1997
On This Day
Thomas Nelson, Nashville.
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