Finance Faith Interation

John E. Stapleford’s book called Bulls, Bears, and Golden Calves is a great insight into the Christian views of economics of today’s world and the way we view it. There are a number of points that Stapleford talks about in this book from biblical times to Christopher Columbus’ times. This book narrates just how Christians should behave and view the problems of the past and the problems of today. Overall, I feel the book is very in-depth and concise on the way some issues should be observed. Stapleford does a great job including references and bible verses to support his positions.

A Biblical Worldview would also provide many economic principles filled with wisdom. Such principles include protecting those

Stapleford accepted that financial aspects and morals are interconnected and that moral standards impact the conduct of both buyers and makers, also the plan of open strategies. This book is composed "from the point of view of Christian morals—Christian norms of conduct as found in Scripture." Stapleford perceives that adding moral contemplations to the effectively complex structure of market financial matters will add to the understudy 's workload, yet declares that it

This essay will provide a scriptural key to understanding the topics of finance in a Christian worldview perspective. The illustrations will be reflected through the events found in God’s word, providing a greater understanding into the relevance of the Bible in today’s economic world. It will show the importance of the integration of faith, as God has provided His wisdom for today in the illustrations of the Holy Word. Refer to II Timothy 3: 16-17 (New King James

grown strong in the Lord. These are reliable disciples who are qualified to teach others.14 2

God’s primary way of developing leaders was through mentoring. The most positive and effective technique to prepare people for life and leadership is through mentoring. As Christians, we are charged to “help the weak and encourage the timid” and to “serve and care for the flock.” A task impossible for church leaders to personally mentor so they assist prospective mentees in finding qualified godly mentors, as

“So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors, and the teachers to equip his people for works of service, so the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature,

When examined through a semi-technical lens, the Bible designates a significant amount of passage-space to the discussion of economic matters. Many of Jesus’ parables and the book of Proverbs seem heavily focused on such a topic. However, the Bible is far from a standard textbook that could be used in an economics class. The Bible does not go into detail explaining economic principles such as monetary and fiscal policies, aggregate supply and demand curves, inflation, etc. Instead, from a Christian perspective, the Bible acts as a framework for our actions, attitudes, and views surrounding wealth and the actions taken by ourselves and others, including national governments. One crucial aspect of economics that proves to be a significant motivating

From the group Biblical Integration Paper, it was understood that servant-leadership is not only a gift of purpose that God places in the hearts of His people, but it is also a calling in one’s life to truly touch the lives of others in need. Living a successful life, as a servant-leader is not one that focuses on self-fulfillment, rather it is in seeking a fulfillment that comes from Christ when one pours him/herself out for the sake of others. It is through servant-leadership that one is able to bring hope into hopeless situations (Group Integration Paper,

“There is much that can be learned about leadership from Scripture” (Smith, 1992, p. 39). The Bible provides us with what God not only desires His man of God to be, but requires His under shepherd to meet His character traits.

Business shepherds are called by God in various duties and stewardship within His Kingdom, giving them differing talents and abilities. The stewardship of the shepherd’s roles and talents determine success in the eyes of God. Success is the dominion in one’s sphere through obedience to God’s will. Obedience to God’s will flows out of our relationship with Jesus, and in that relationship, obedience is not a daunting task, on the contrary, it is a complete willingness to glorify God.

The church is in need of major renovation when it comes to making disciples. The concept of making disciples to follow the Lord Jesus Christ seems completely foreign to the church today. In order to achieve the desired goal of making disciples for Christ, training others to go out and proclaim gospel, and helping others to train people to disciple one another, one needs to go back to foundation of the Word of God. It is in God’s Word where multiple examples are found of how to make disciples to follow Jesus Christ. It is my desire to see more people in the church have a passion for discipleship. Therefore, this paper will examine in detail how to make disciples in a ministry context. This will be accomplished by examining the 5 V’s of discipleship—vision, values, views, vehicles, and verifiers. It is my purpose to examine each area in order to have a detailed plan of discipleship that will be used in my own ministry context to make disciples for Christ. I hope that this plan can and will be used to train others in the church to make disciples, and disciple one another, for the glory of God.

The first investment we must make as Christians is in our relationship with God in eternity, then we should invest in our worldly aspects of life such as education, retirement and the future of their family. Matthew 25: 14-30 (ESV), The Parable of Talents, affirms that God expects us to prepare for the future by using the gifts He has bestowed upon us, in a wise and responsible manner. While investing itself is not a sin for Christians, it is a sin to invest in entities that profit from practices that violate Biblical principles as stated in 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? It is important to give cheerfully our

There are severals scriptures that are the foundation of this mission, one being Ezekiel chapter 3 and 33 where God chooses the prophet, Ezekiel, to be a watchman over His people. 1 Timothy 4:1-6 where Paul warns Timothy about false teachers and their doctrine and to stand against them through the preaching of sound doctrine. Other scriptures that have a watchman focus include Matthew 7:21-22; Matthew 24: 4-5, 9-13, 22-25; John 13:1-11; John 14:15; 2 Peter 2 and 3. Thus my mission is to be used by God through the leading of the Holy Spirit in bringing people to the complete submission to the Kingship of Jesus Christ based on the sound doctrine His word and calling out all deception contrary to. To put it simply my theology of mission can be described as War against the counterfeits.

Leaders are appointed to serve here on earth on behalf of Christ since Christ is the good and chief shepherd. Leaders should lead the believers based on how Christ related with the church when he was on earth[5]. Shepherds had to feed the people of God and to protect them from predators[6]. Churches today ought to do things how the New Testament churches did[7].