Why Did Jesus Die?
Why did Jesus die? The answer seems to be obvious: Jesus came to save us from our sins, to save our souls, because He loves us so much. This is what we are told, and this is what we tell [...]
Integrating Physical & Spiritual: From Principle to Practice
Reconciled World’s third Core Principle is Integrating Physical and Spiritual. It means that we acknowledge that people are spiritual and physical beings, all intertwined in a way that there is really no such thing as “spiritual problems” and “physical problems”. So [...]
International Wholistic Missions Conference 2015
The story went something like this: “What is the main priority of your ministry, I asked? He was a ministry leader in a Latin American country and I wasn’t sure exactly how he would answer this question. He paused and [...]
Integrating Faith and Business
John Beckett is a Christ follower, business leader, and author of Loving Monday and Mastering Monday. This month, as we reflect on our Core Value: integrating physical and spiritual, we asked John for permission to repost some of his writings on integration [...]
Why are Christians Living Lives Like Potluck Paper Plates?
A few months ago in my church we commissioned a family that was leaving to do “full time” ministry work in Europe. They had felt the call to go to Europe as missionaries and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ [...]
King’s Church Medway – Leading the Way in Integrated Ministry
When I was growing up (not that long ago, thanks), we had all the inward-focused ministries, like Sunday school and potlucks, and we had evangelism. I think we would have considered any activity that served the poor as “social gospel” [...]
Wholistic Development for Mommies
Luke 2:52 says, “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” This tiny verse is how the Bible sums up the first 30 or so years of Jesus’ life. Many of us who are [...]
A Simple Repair
When we are invited into a new area to teach the TCT program, we try to identify the key lies that hold communities in poverty. For one reason or another, one of the lies that we often find is that [...]
Culture: Where the Physical and Spiritual Converge
For several weeks in the month of May our blog will be wrestling with one of the 7 core principles of Reconciled World: Integrating Physical & Spiritual. To begin we would like to share a post from friend and Reconciled World [...]
The Importance of the Whole Story
I shared once before about a pastor’s wife who was doing abortions as a way to show God’s love to her community. Despite the many church-based trainings that she had been to, she had no idea that what she was [...]