Christian Directory and Christian Entrepreneur

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In my continued consolidation of my blogs, yesterday I was able to pick up articles, which I consider important from "A Father's Three Aces" and "Anything Goes".

Today, as I continue with organizing my thoughts, I revisited two more blogs, "Christian Directory" and "Christian Entrepreneur". Christian Directory is an ambitious project aimed for young pastors and fathers.  This is not an easy task for the scope of the literature is vast covering Christian ethics, Christian economics, Christian ecclesiastics, and Christian politics. I am not sure if I still have the time to read them all and write my summaries and reflection of them. Imagine reading 2,335 pages on top of all my current tasks as an Academic Dean, as well as my duty to prepare for my class lectures.

Turning to Christian Entrepreneur, my feeling is mixed. There is this feeling of loneliness and sense of satisfaction. Lonely, because I did not make it. Satisfied, because of the experience I gained. I realized that necessity forced me to enter into a field that I would not dare to consider in my wildest dream if everything in my life was just normal. Difficult situation pressured me to take a risk in order for my kids to survive. Such risk-taking stretched and compelled me to grow. Such growth would never happen if I stayed within my comfort zone.

My review of Christian Entrepreneur also surprised me knowing that nine years ago, I already had this initial conception about the relationship between business and spirituality, and business and theology. Moreover, I also find my study of network marketing valuable.  

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People of Wisdom (Proverbs 1)

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"Wisdom cries  aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks" (Proverbs 1:20-21).  Reading verses like the above tells us that the kind of faith taught in the Bible is not something private. This is contrary to what most people think today saying that when you talk about the things of God or matters of religion, you should keep it personally either in your home or in your local church, or you just talk about it during Sunday.  The introductory chapter of the book of Proverbs tells us that wisdom calls in public space. This teaches us that the whole of society cannot escape the call of God. To ignore such call will certainly reap disastrous consequences.  How about if the people of God Himself who supposed to live such wisdom are the ones undermining it? We do this either by disconnecting our faith from our public lives or by consenting to the ruling social norms thinking t
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The Special Duties of Husbands to their Wives

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Fulfill your duties to your wife in order to avoid the following unhappy results: Failure of your wife to fulfill her duties towards you Such will cause you much affliction She will be bitter towards you in the end Summary of your Duties as Christian Husbands: You are responsible to undertake the government of your family including your wife. This ability consists: In holiness and spiritual wisdom. An ungodly, irreligious man is both a stranger and an enemy to the most important part of family-government. In due acquaintance with the works of your calling. He that is utterly unacquainted with the members of his family, will be very unfit to govern them. He must be acquainted both with the common temper and infirmities of mankind, that he may know how much is to be borne with, and also with the particular temper, and faults, and virtues of those whom he is to govern. And he must have prudence to give them direction in accomplishing their tasks; and justice to deal with every one as they
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Ownership

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The first chapter is all about ownership. By discussing this topic, the author starts with the doctrine of creation. For him, this doctrine separates his approach from all other approaches by other economists. By insisting on the importance of the doctrine of creation to economics, he argues that the universe, man, economic laws, and economic growth are not autonomous. The doctrine of creation establishes the idea of original ownership , which belongs to God alone as explicitly stated in Psalm 24:1–2 and many other biblical passages. And since it is God who created the world, He is therefore the original and absolute Owner of everything. The idea therefore of ownership is basically theocentric. This tells us that the economic concept of ownership is ultimately a theological idea. The concept of ownership cannot be properly understood apart from God as the ultimate Owner of all things. Providence is another corollary doctrine that cannot be separated from the doctrine of creation. Thi
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