I want to put a challenge before you – are you ready? Okay, here we go! Pull out your Strong’s Concordance and look up the term ‘full time ministry’. I’m willing to award a prize to the one who finds the most references. As a matter of fact, I’ll gladly give an expensive gift to anyone who can produce one instance where that exact terminology is used anywhere in the original languages!

Let me save you some time. There is not one person in the entire Bible that is referred to as being in full time ministry! Isn’t it amazing how frequently we hear the phrase ‘full-time ministry’ and it’s not even found once in the Word of God? Perhaps we need to ask the Lord for a more Biblical paradigm. . . . Read More ... >>>

One of the greatest revelations I have learned in recent years is that whatever I do in life, IS MINISTRY.

Every job and every assignment, my family, and every path that the Holy Spirit leads me, IS MINISTRY.

Colossians 3:23-24 

²³Whatever work you do, do it with all your heart. Do it for the Lord and not for men.  

²⁴Remember that you will get your reward from the Lord. He will give you what you should receive. You are working for the Lord Christ.

Everything We Do Serves the King and His Kingdom!

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As soccer is not part of normal church life, this is a relevant question.

There are however some other Kingdom pointers as stated below:

•  Prophecy: God planned and will use this soccer world cup to be a catalyst event.
• A prophetic word here by Andre Louw  includes the following questions
  • Do you think that the world cup coming to Africa is an accident?
  • Do you think the fact that all the eyes of the world will be turned to My beloved Africa, is a coincidence?
• From this testimony, it is clear that the the new airport is God ordained and it is in time for the World cup, see Testimony of a visionary Councillor: Durban Airport didn’t happened by chance and  Durban's New Airport! Praise GOD for His will …
• There are many confirming prophetic words worldwide that the next move of God will be outside the walls of the church  - in the marketplace and that it will be the faceless nameless who will lead it.
  

Every Christian needs to ask some of these questions:

• Are we ready to seize this opportunity, and to e.g. put a life coach in the lives of our orphans via soccer coaching. (We know how the Lord feels about fathering His orphans)
• Can we not use this opportunity and reach out to our own youth, those in the neighbourhood and even the visitors during the extra long holidays?

TUG which stands for the The Ultimate Goal aims to join hands and equip each congregation and Christian to DO something during this world cup  time:

What an opportunity we have to work together!

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By Joseph Mattera www.josephmattera.org

For the church to obey the Cultural Commission of influencing every realm of culture as salt and light (Genesis 1:28 and Matthew 5:13-16) it is essential that believers learn how to think biblically and articulate biblical principles in the language of contemporary hearers.

All the biblical covenants point to believers taking the lead in secular society and redeeming cultures for the kingdom and glory of God. . . . Read More ... >>>

by Francis Frangipane www.frangipane.org

  I have discovered that, as we seek the Lord, our most difficult periods can be transformed into wonderful breakthroughs into God's love. For me, one such season occurred during the years 1979 to 1981. The association of churches with which I was aligned had fallen under spiritual deception. Not only were its core doctrines increasingly seeded with New Age influences, but immorality crept in, and key leaders began leaving their wives for other women. I could no longer remain silent. As a result, in 1979 I left my congregation in Detroit, Michigan, where I had served as pastor, and traveled to the organization's regional headquarters in Iowa. I came to plead for repentance. However, after meeting with the senior leaders, I was asked to leave the group.

So here we were—we had left our church, we had no money, and we had four little children and couldn't afford even basic housing. . . . Read More ... >>>

Extract:God never allows for situational ethics. There are absolutes in the Kingdom of God. The Word of God does not change because of culture or accepted practice.

It was an "industry practice" to sell doves in the temple. But Jesus never accepted the practice because he knew it was turning a holy place of prayer into a commercial enterprise. It did not matter that it was an accepted practice.

God calls each of us to operate from a plumb line of righteousness in our work life, no matter the consequence. . . . Read More ... >>>