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What is Kingdom fruit

June 4, 2009
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June 2009

What is Kingdom fruit?

Recently I had the opportunity to preach on the Kingdom in my local church. As part of this message I referred to the warning from Jesus that if we don’t produce the fruit of the Kingdom then God will take the Kingdom from us and give it to someone else who is being productive for the Kingdom (Matt 21:43). Following this message I had an interesting dialogue with my friend Mark Darling.

Mark is a psychologist who specializes in neurofeedback therapy for Autism Spectrum conditions. Neurofeedback is a non-invasive, painless and fun therapy for children on the Spectrum that is based on complex scientific processes. Mark’s dedication to this field of study was initiated by the journey he and Kim have walked with their son Nathan. For many years Mark has pioneered new treatments and he is seeing some amazing results. Listen to this testimony which has been publicized in a national newsletter for parents with Aspergers Syndrome.

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Breaking the Shackles

Phil Burgess is a student of the Clapham sect and draws from their success various principles we can apply today. Here is an extract from a speech he gave in Sydney to an Anglicare fundraising dinner.

“Today, unfortunately, we have a tendency to privatize our faith and compartmentalize our view of the world. Too often, we condemn and withdraw from the culture – including the arts and entertainment, which, in earlier times, were powerful conveyers of the faith. Too often we abandon the public square and retire from what US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes called “the action and passions” of our time. Or we treat religion as a ritualistic activity that doesn’t much matter to everyday life – except perhaps in times of joy (like marriages), ritual celebration (Christmas, Easter), tragedy, suffering or death.

When we privatize our faith by focusing primarily on our personal salvation while ignoring communal issues and obligations of stewardship – and when we compartmentalize the world into separate domains of faith, work, parenting, recreation, and commerce, to name a few (which we then try to “balance” – as in “I lead a “balanced life”), we say, in essence, that there are parts of ourselves and parts of our life – indeed, parts of Creation – that God doesn’t care about. From Scripture to Kuyper and from C.S. Lewis to Francis Schaeffer and Reinhold Niebuhr we know this is not true.

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Kingdom and you

I have been very grateful over the last few months for several friends who have made me aware of articles, MP3s, websites and so on that feature good articles on the Kingdom message. Can I please encourage all of our readers to continue to send thru these links so that we can feature them in our newsletter and on our website.
To promote this conversation on the Kingdom can I ask you to help us in a few ways
  • Fill in the forward to a friend link on this newsletters to send a copy of the newsletter to your friends. This is better than forwarding this newwsletter because the HTML format tends to get distorted when it is forwarded.
  • Encourage you friends to sign up for this newsletter either from the subscribe link on the newsletter itself of from the contact page on the website.
  • Make people aware of the website as there are many great articles and MP3s that can be downloaded.

Business opportunity

As some of you may remember this year I have been taking steps to link my Kingdom vision with my internet business “Using the Net”. This has meant that I am offering the opportunity for people who have a heart for the Kingdom and a desire to develop their own business to work with me.

The opportunity involves becoming an Account Manager with Using the Net and looking after clients in your region and network. Already we have Account Managers in Brisbane, Adelaide, Sunshine Coast and Melbourne. Meet the teamUsing the Net offers full internet services to people in business. These include:

  • Enewsletter service
  • Website development
  • Search Engine Optimisation
  • Marketing
  • Executive coaching
  • Creative design

The vision for this development can be found on our Kingdom website. There are 3 aspects to this offer:

  • The opportunity to start your own business
  • The opportunity to make an impact for the Kingdom through this business in the community
  • The opportunity to support our wider vision for the Kingdom

Please have a look on our websiteand if you are interested in finding out more please get in touch. Also you might know someone who could potentially be interested in this idea – please direct them also to the website.

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