The Christian Church: Clueless – Go Make Disciples – Marketplace Discipleship – Application of 4 Practical Steps that can unbundle God’s Glory in Your Industry and disciple your industry with ease – Part 11 of 12 #Church #TheChristianChurch #Jesus #Christians #Christianity #Disciples #DiscipleMaking #HouseChurches #Movement #SecularChurches #Clueless #CluelessGoMakeDisciples #movement #Stories #discipleship #Workplace #missionfields #DiscipleshipInTheWorkplace #MarketplaceDiscipleship #SpiritualGifts #IdrisJala #DarrenShearer #Pemandu Subject – Marketplace Discipleship – Application of 4 Practical Steps that can unbundle God’s Glory in Your Industry and disciple your industry with ease – Part 11 of 12 OTAKADA.org content count 2,115,760 Sunday, 28th of July 2019 Blog link: https://www.otakada.org/ ttps://youtu.be/9FJTd3wJapI The Christian Church: Clueless – Go Make Disciples – Marketplace Discipleship – Application of 4 Practical Steps that can unbundle God’s Glory in Your Industry and disciple your industry with ease – Part 11 of 12 Nuggets of Wisdom “God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.” ― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life “Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves.” ― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith “We face a humanity that is too precious to neglect. We know a remedy for the ills of the world too wonderful to withhold. We have a Christ too glorious to hide. We have an adventure that is too thrilling to miss.” — Theodore Williams of India Key verses for Today: Matthew 28:18-20 Amplified Bible (AMP) 18 Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.” Introduction The Christian Church: Clueless – Go Make Disciples – Marketplace Discipleship – Application of 4 Practical Steps that can unbundle God’s Glory in Your Industry and disciple your industry with ease – Part 11 of 12 – Dear brethren, welcome to the eleventh series on the Christian church – Go make disciples. Marketplace discipleship is key today because that is where we gathered to engage in our daily activity. Today, we exploring four steps that you and I can apply to any industry that can unbundle God’s glory in that industry and provide opportunity for discipleship. We will also replay two videos, one of Darren Shearer who shares the importance of setting biblical standards for businesses and discipleship in the marketplace by applying our spiritual gifts to the industry and another video of Idris Jala of Pemandu, a Malaysian professed Christian who uses lessons from the bible and spiritual gifts to turnaround troubled business and government institution worldwide watch video via this link https://youtu.be/9FJTd3wJapI – Your life, my life and everything and everyone around us are our mission fields. Don’t ever settle to the mindset that when you are out of your immediate environment, then mission field happens. Mission field is right in your home, your immediate environment, your work place, your trip to places you have been and seen, our struggle and victories through lives up and downs and how we are able to keep our heads above water, through it all by His grace. Mission field is essentially borderless…. Application of 4 Practical Steps that can unbundle God’s Glory in Your Industry and disciple your industry with is Although the Academy Awards ceremony, The Oscars, is usually an entertaining show for any movie-goer, the ceremony does not exist primarily for the enjoyment of movie-goers. Rather, it is an annual opportunity for the members of the film industry to honor those among their peers who they feel have made the greatest contributions to their industry. Each Academy Award nomination is a vote to shape the culture of the film industry, which then affects the broader cultures of nations. In the Great Commission, Jesus commanded us to “make disciples of all nations” (Matt. 28:19), not individuals only. Making disciples of nations means helping nations to reflect the glorious image of Jesus. As part of our mandate to disciple entire nations, marketplace Christians are responsible for discipling entire industries, ultimately causing them to reflect the glorious image of Jesus in the marketplace. Business industries wield more control over the overall cultures of nations than any other human institution. If we don’t disciple our industries, they will be discipled by people who have godless value systems. This is especially true in the United States and Europe where the religion of Secular Humanism currently dominates many industries. Secular Humanism attempts to replace God and His Kingdom with cleverly-marketed, godless worldviews. How would you describe the prevailing culture of your industry? In other words… What are the worldviews of the industry’s leaders? What are the ethical norms? What gets celebrated in your industry? How are the customers treated? How is your industry perceived by the public? What are the dominant beliefs concerning politics, religion, etc.? Are you actively shaping the culture of your industry? In other words, how are you helping your industry to reflect the glorious image of Jesus Christ? Here are four steps to discipling your industry. Step #1 – Apply Your Spiritual Gifts in Your Industry Your
