These are the terms that describe how we represent the life of God's Kingdom to the brokenness we encounter in this world:
Ambassadors - 2 Corinthians 5:20
Witnesses - Acts 1:8
Foundations - 2 Corinthians 12:9b
Knowing that your work fits into God's original design for people to reflect his rule, the question is, are you going to use your profession to confront brokenness and to collaborate with the power of our exalted Lord? Confronting brokenness will always involve much more than simply cursing it. Confronting brokenness, at a minimum, involves creating ministry plans and structures, and then communicating with God, with others, and even with the victims themselves, bringing the resurrection life of God's Kingdom to bear as a Kingdom ambassador, witness, and foundation.
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Dear Randy,
Your CMDA Connections Conference presentations on the "Kingdom of God" continue to be an encouragement in ministry.
Thought you'd be interested in knowing that I draw from them in a recent Emerging Scholars Network Blog post, http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2011/06/incarnational-stream-higher-education-holistic-spirituality/.
May God the Father continue to richly bless your life/ministry as you faithfully follow Jesus the Christ, guided by the Word, Spirit, and the Body of Christ.
In Christ,
Thomas B. Grosh IV
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Graduate & Faculty Ministry
CMDA Associate Staff
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