As I move into a series on my understanding of Biblical Administration I feel that my personal testimony may be helpful.
Being an Armour Bearer
At the Newfrontiers TOAM Conference in July I felt God prompt me to testify at the end of Joel Virgo’s talk on Jonathan and his armour bearer about my being an ‘armour bearer’ [...]
Continue reading about Biblical Administration - part 1 - My Personal Story
Every year Newfrontiers hosts a conference at the Brighton Conference Centre, UK, Together on a Mission. The conference has two streams: Christian Leadership and Mobilise. The latter is for Students and Twenties. For parts of the programme these streams are separate and for parts they meet together.
This is an international conference which gathers around 4000 [...]
The concluding part of this series on lessons from Jesus’ feeding the 5000 focuses on completion of the task.
Mk 6:42-45 And (the people) all ate and were satisfied. And (the disciples) took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men. Immediately he [...]
We shall now look at the next administrative ’skill’, number 7, that Jesus demonstrated while feeding the 5000.
Mk 6:41 And taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided [...]
We have already considered four administrative skills which Jesus demonstrated when he fed the 5000. We shall now look at two more.
5. Implementation
Mk 6:40 So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.
A plan had clearly formed in Jesus’ mind and in order to fulfil it he needed not only to reassert his [...]
Continuing to learn Biblical administration from Jesus’ feeding the 5000 we shall now consider two more aspects.
3. What resources are available?
Mk 6:38 And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
In formulating a plan an accurate assessment [...]
In previous postings we have looked at the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 as recorded in Mk 6. Now, so much for the narrative. What are the administrative points – the skills and processes – which we can learn from this passage?
1. Jesus was a people person
Mk 6:34 .. he had compassion on them, because [...]
Breakfast in Brighton
I have just had breakfast at the Brighton Conference Centre! This is the venue on Brighton seafront for many political party conferences and prestigious pop-concerts, but this week the gathering place for over 2000 church leaders and 1500 students and twenties from around the world. Each morning the Management Team meets for breakfast [...]
