Matthew 6:10

PRESENT PROBLEMS
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
Martin Luther King

PRESENT PROBLEMS

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

PRESENT PROBLEMS
15% of the world’s GDP.
15% of the world’s GDP

PRESENT PROBLEMS

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

PRESENT PROBLEMS

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.

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).

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!

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).

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

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.

Kingdom Strategy & The Marketplace
Low Income
Markets

John Calvin John Wesley William Carey

George
Whitefield
SPIRITUAL
REVIVAL
John
Wesley
APOSTOLIC
ORGANISATION
William
Wilberforce
POLITICAL
ECONOMIC
REFORMATION

Base of the Pyramid
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
His plan is not higher taxes or endless handouts, but a
PARTNERING with the poor
(Lev 19:10; Deut
24:19).

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

LOOKING AT THE ABOLIONISTS

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

STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
Olaudah Equiano
Best-selling autobiography of a slave who earned his freedom.

STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
William Wilberforce
Politician, movement’s chief voice in parliament for nearly 40 years.

STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
Josiah Wedgewood
Commerce,
“AM I NOT A MAN AND A
BROTHER” logo

STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
Granville Sharp
Law, pamphleteer and pioneer anti-slave crusader

STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
Thomas
Clarkson
25 year old leader and anti-salve crusader

STRATEGY
LOOKING AT THE ABOLITIONISTS
The Clapham
Sect
A team of
Christians informally getting together to press for change.
Worked with
Wilberforce.

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

Businesses and organisations founded by
Quakers…

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.

• Government
• Economics
• Science and
Technology
• Church
• Family
• Education
• Communication
• Arts and entertainment
• Community
• Environment

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

Kingdom Strategy & The Marketplace
Low Income
Markets

RESOURCES
• Patricia Aburdene,
Capitalism,
Megatrends 2010: The rise of Conscious
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

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).

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).