• Lesson 1: The Paradigm Shift
• Lesson 2: Ideas Have Consequences
• Lesson 3: The Transforming Story
• Lesson 4: The Power of Story
• Lesson 5: The ABC’s of Culture: Part 1 The Web of Lies
• Lesson 6: The Kingdom of God
• Lesson 7: William Carey
• Lesson 8: The Impact of the Wesley Revivals
• Lesson 9: LifeWork and Developing a Biblical Theology of Vocation
• Lesson 10: Reviving the Reformation
• The Forest in the Seed
• The Maternal Heart of God

Even after three years with Christ, the disciples had a very different perspective of who He was and what He came to do, than what Christ knew was real. The disciples had a faulty paradigm. Jesus worked to shift their paradigm so they could see reality.

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As people who are concerned about ministry to people who are poor, we must make a distinction between poverty of circumstance and poverty of mind (pauperism). Material resources can affect poverty of circumstance, but it is the truth of God’s Word that impacts the poverty of mind. Exchanging truth for a lie has consequences, not only in our behavior, but in the kind of world we create.

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God has given us a powerful story to tell to the nations. It is God’s story, and it has the ability to transform individual lives, lift communities out of poverty and build nations that are free, compassionate and just. We must learn to tell the whole breadth and depth of the transforming story.

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Everyone has a worldview. Every culture has a “story”, a worldview. Worldviews are powerful because they determine how we see the world, they shape our values and behaviors and they determine the kind of societies we will build. In some cases, even the Church has abandoned a biblical worldview, and the consequences have tragically influenced our understanding of the nature of the Church and the Great Commission.

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There are fundamental building blocks of culture. Satan lies to individuals and nations by replacing Kingdom building blocks (Truth) with his counterfeit building blocks (lies), resulting in the impoverishment and enslavement of nations. The more Truth a culture embraces, the healthier it is. The more lies it embraces, the more destruction, poverty and enslavement it experiences.

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The Kingdom of God is any realm where Christ the King reigns – where His will is done. His Kingdom is God’s total answer to man’s total need, and that is good news. The nature of the Kingdom of God and its members provides a framework for personal transformation that will move outward bringing transformation to communities and nations.

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Before Wesley, England was in rapid decline and poised on the brink of a violent revolution. After Wesley, England experienced a remarkable social, political, moral, artistic, and religious renaissance whose influence spread beyond its borders and into Africa and India. God was able to use one man, committed to bring every area of life under the Lordship of Christ, to transform an entire culture.

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Sustainable social development requires Christians to proactively integrate their faith and their vocation, to the end that the various sectors and spheres of society are impacted for Christ. This session is designed to help Christians begin the process of developing a Biblical theology for their vocational calling.

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At a time when all the nations of the world were materially impoverished, the Protestant Reformation brought a transformation to those nations that embraced the biblical ideals and values taught by the Reformers. Those nations were some of the most free, just and compassionate societies the world has ever seen. The principles brought by our reformer fathers are valuable lessons for the church today.

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