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    Kingdom People: Creative Leadership for Professional Kingdom People
    Kingdom People: Creative Leadership for Professional Kingdom People
    Kingdom People: Creative Leadership for Professional Kingdom People
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    Kingdom People: Creative Leadership for Professional Kingdom People

    By David Mniki

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    Kingdom People speaks directly to Gods Kingdom people, that is, those who acknowledge Gods rule over the spiritual and secular worlds. It shares deep insights about Gods vision for the world today and equips Christians to understand how and why the Lord has assigned His Kingdom People to live, work, and help build nations on moral and spiritual foundations.

    The book reveals secrets of the Kingdom as they are taught in scripture. It pays special attention to those called to professional service, helping them to understand how to be committed Christians and, at the same time, be successful individuals who also care about developing nations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJan 24, 2014
    ISBN9781483697260
    Kingdom People: Creative Leadership for Professional Kingdom People
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    David Mniki

    Pastor David Mniki is the Founder of Kingdom Vision Ministries, in East London, South Africa. Kingdom Vision Ministries is a family of more than fifty churches that bring apostolic ministry to the Christian church. The Ministry works as a catalyst to equip Christians to better understand the responsibility and power they have to establish God’s Kingdom on earth as sons and daughters of God. David Mniki is renowned for his life-changing teachings on Christian leadership through workshops, seminars, and coaching focusing on young people, professionals, and heads of churches. David Mniki is married to Iris, and they have three children and six grandchildren.

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      Kingdom People - David Mniki

      Copyright © 2014 by David Mniki.

      ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4836-9725-3

                      Ebook            978-1-4836-9726-0

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 12/18/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      Contents

      Chapter 1:   The Path

      Chapter 2:   Rocky Places

      Chapter 3:   Seed among Thorns

      Chapter 4:   Good Soil

      Chapter 5:   Hearing God

      Chapter 6:   Kingdom Creativity

      Chapter 7:   Action of Faith

      Chapter 8:   The Rhythm of Producing

      Chapter 9:   Creative Leadership

      Chapter 10:   Wisdom for Leadership

      Chapter 11:   Spiritual Intelligence

      Chapter 12:   The Work of a Steward

      Chapter 1

      The Path

      Then He told them many things in parables, saying: ‘A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path…’ (Matt. 13: 3)

      A S I READ THE text quoted above, I was aware that I was speaking to a group composed mostly of urbanised, professional people. Jesus had addressed these words to people of an agricultural background. Master communicator that He was, He weaved a parable out of pictures that would have the maximum impact on them.

      I was speaking to a group in Cape Town, South Africa, made up of professional folks, with a few church leaders among them. I had invited them to a seminar I was conducting. The main aim of the seminar was to try and answer some hard questions about professional people in the Kingdom of God. Some of the questions are as follows: Why are professional people not as effective in God’s Kingdom as they are in their professions? Why are they so silent about national development even though their expertise and their taxes are supporting the system? Why do professionals seem powerless to take leadership, for instance, organise themselves as a group, rather than always bow to the wishes of politicians or religious leaders?

      I should explain that the group I was talking to was black South African Christians, and they represented both high-powered career people as well as ordinary folks. Yet the questions are relevant to all professional people everywhere, I believe. So, even the fact that my audience was composed of only black folks was a problem. Gatherings that are racially exclusive do not represent us as God sees us, for He loves all humanity. However, I felt that African black professionals need to be challenged with the greatest urgency at this time. In the new democratic dispensations in the continent, especially in South Africa, they are the driving force, but they themselves do not seem to be sufficiently aware of the fact that they play the most important role in the development of their nations.

      Yet, in this disengagement and disempowerment of so-called professional middle classes, they are no different from others all over the world. Everywhere there exist the old political elites, perhaps now no longer kings and chiefs, but leaders of political and economic establishments. In sharing about these things, I do not intend to change these embedded global systems but I hope for a less ambitious outcome—that people may be nudged towards doing what is in their capacity and responsibility to do, which is to find and achieve God’s purpose for their lives and talents, not only for themselves, but for others around them.

      In sharing some of the insights of that time, and expanding on them, I want to emphasise another important aspect. The professionals themselves are part of the section of the nation that used to be called the ‘common man’. They are composed of the vast majority in every nation whose common feature is that they are ‘non-rulers’; they are the ruled. The ‘best’ of these, the more educated, the more socially mobile, more empowered and affluent, we call them ‘civil society’. Where professionals are actively involved in their country, they become the natural leaders of this majority.

      And so, even though I try to challenge specifically the professionals, in this book, I am hoping that ordinary citizens will also read it and find encouragement in it. Particularly, I hope that ordinary people will be aware of the calling on their lives to be creative and faithful stewards of the gifting and visions that the Lord has given them. That way, they will contribute meaningfully to their nations’ success.

      Nation Builders

      Ordinary people by being busy in building their own lives, families, and communities are doing their part in building their nation. However, in the case of the African continent, there is a special mandate for black professionals, who are positionally at the forefront of civil society leadership in their country. This is a nation where the blacks wield political power, and this means that black professionals have a responsibility to work alongside those who rule, to build their nation. Politicians do not build a nation, they rule it. The professional people—who help man our civil service, the schools and universities, the business world, the industries, the arts—are the shoulders on which nations are carried forward.

      Now, among these estimable compatriots, there are those who are God’s Kingdom people. By this, I mean people who acknowledge God’s rule over both the spiritual and secular world. Do they realise that they are assigned by the Lord to live, work, and mobilise to help build the nations on moral and spiritual foundations? Incidentally, I have in mind here a broad and inclusive understanding of who a professional person is. I include both the well-educated, high achiever, as well as those in the lower rungs of the professions or industries.

      I believe that Jesus’s parables about the Kingdom of heaven are relevant to all of us at this time. But they present an even more pressing question for the believer who is a professional. They are about the bread and butter issues of the Kingdom. In other words, they are about how we apply the spiritual truths of the Kingdom in our daily lives, in our quest for success and meaning in life, as well as in our communities. Too many Christians, who are called to professional service, lose their spiritual commitment in the busyness of achieving their God-given purpose. How do we stay committed Christians but, at the same time, become successful individuals who also care

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