by Justin Irving, director of the Doctor of Ministry program and professor of ministry leadership | Apr 8, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
Since 2012, Bethel Seminary has been engaging the conversation about whole-life discipleship through our Work with Purpose initiative. Seven years later, that conversation and the impact of the initiative continue within the seminary and beyond. Through partnerships...
by Mark DeVine, associate professor of divinity, Beeson Divinity School | Apr 8, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
Note: This excerpt spotlights the work of Mark DeVine, an individual faculty partner in the Oikonomia Network. It is taken from his new book, Shalom Yesterday, Today and Forever. Without warning and with unexpected power, the first article of the oldest...
by Oikonomia Network | Mar 12, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
Evangelism versus justice. Great Commission versus Great Commandment. Kingdom work versus ordinary work. Proclamation versus discipleship. Gathered versus scattered. Missionaries versus deacons. Justification versus sanctification. Faith versus love. A lot of people...
by Oikonomia Network | Mar 12, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
What if we’re getting the whole sacred/secular problem backward? The faith and work movement is concerned that Christians have divided a sacred church from a secular world, cutting off the world from the mission of God – and cutting off most of our own...
by ALISTAIR MACKENZIE, TEACHING FELLOW, LAIDLAW COLLEGE | Mar 11, 2019 | Newsletter Articles
This the latest in a series of articles sharing insights from a joint curricular development initiative of the ON, the Theology of Work Project and three ON schools (Asbury, Assemblies of God and Western). In our curricular workshops, we only had one conversation with...
