KINGDOM COME

Leadership By Consensus Gone are the days be it in a secular field or even in the liberal autocratic set up, leadership is on A person based. These are the days when we move together and where the leader knows which direction his team has to take. Yet he does not make a deliberate step to direct but by consensus and keeping the vision each and every person is shared into this vision and automatically the direction follows. Such a leadership is indeed a skill but also where the Leader does not any more fit into the irrelevant term called BOSS. Speaking to a friend recently this thought clicked like a spark into me.He shared how being entrusted to take the responsibility as a Principal he took the school team (Parent, Teacher & Students) into confidence and led them by consensus. The board of the school became anxious- cause the ways the other schools were run were by the rod! My Friend a Committed Christian was living the Christian Principle of Leadership............................

KINGDOM PEOPLE IN KINGDOM BUISNESS Over the last two decades as a Christian and a ‘Missionary’, I realise we have had a tendency to narrow down Mission to some very specific categories. Mission in my first decade, as an Evangelical, was thrust to someone who is sent out; probably as a missionary to an “Unreached” destination. But over the last decade as ‘Evangelicals’ we have looked at Mission with a more Wholistic framework. Probably in the present context we seem to be getting over some past histories, from which we evolved, to a much Biblical (mature) perspective. Mission for God is His Kingdom Come. So our study here would be centered around His Kingdom. ‘Kingdom of God’ (and for that matter any New Testament subject) needs to be always understood in the light of the Old Testament. The Kingdom of God is Kingship, His rule, His authority...the Kingdom is not a realm or a people but God’s Reign” [1] The Kingdom Mission (concern) is the reconciliation of mankind back to God and to