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• cultural practices/ worldviewWe believe the teaching of the Missionaries, influences of the holy spirit, reading of scripture on the part ofChristian/Church Leader and cultural practices/worldview all together played a significant role of makinginfluence on the understanding of resource management in national churches.Among these areas, the cultural practices/worldview is influencing much more in our societies.5. Are there any other aspects of the topic which you believe GIA ought to consider in its work?We consider if the GIA can arrange an exposure visit for the National Leaders to sharing their countryexperience of God’s work among the host countries.6. Feel free to add a statement regarding biblical or missiological principles on resource-management.(a).(b).“Jesus Feeds 5000 People” For there is nothing to eat here in this deserted spot, they said. But Jesusreplied, “you feed them!” Luke 9: 12-13. Here Jesus taught us to be responsible for each other and sharethe resource among each other for the glory of God.Intellectual personal dialogue resource: “Jesus replied, “if you only knew what an wonderful gift God hasfor you, and who I am, you would ask me for some living water! John 4:10.Stephen P. SinghaBusiness ManagerABMS, Bangladesh.Here we can see how beautifully Jesus addressed this lady (who has got a bad reputation in her society)to her felt need and the result after Jesus conversation with her.
5. Papua, Indonesia1. Resource management in Christian ministry is a God-given ability to identify, seek and utilize all resources(human, economic/natural) for the ultimate benefit of the Christian community/church and for theextension of God’s Kingdom. This ability firstly comes from God as a part of the gift of leadership as it isstated in Romans 12: 8 and 1 Corinthians 12: 28. Later on the Holy Spirit will develop this ability when aperson opens his/her life to be led in training and following examples of other gifted persons in ministry.2. To a certain extent yes, in terms that during the ministry of a young national church, the national leadershave to learn a lot from their fellow missionaries on how to manage resources within the community ofbelievers. Then as the national church matures, the national leaders themselves have to exercise this taskfor the good of the national church. Here the quality and ability of the leaders were important.3. In practice over the years between GIA/ABMS and the church, we see first the missionary take the leadwhile seeking potential nationals to be trained at home and abroad, to take over the future leadership.Some of the major issues to arise were shortage of human resources as well as funds, and to a certainextent, rivalry and jealousy among clans or tribes within the community of churches.4. As I have expressed in point one above, I believe two major influences have contributed to the nationalchurch’s understanding of resource management: they were the influence of the Holy Spirit and theunderstanding of what the Scripture teaches concerning management. It has to be admitted that theteaching and examples of the missionaries were also important. They teach the church leaders to manageall resources wisely and carefully. My experience during working together with Rev Keith Jobberns atKotaraja Baptist Theological College in the 1980’s has brought valuable progress for the College becauseof wise and careful management of resources exercised by Keith.On the other hand it seems to me that cultural practices/world view in Papua in particular has become ahindrance toward the understanding of resource management, because leadership follow the practice oftraditional leadership which can only give small room for trained and skilled leaders, while the practice offestivals and ceremonies influenced by their culture and habit are always wasting economic resources.5. In the context of Indonesian society, I suggest at least two other aspects ought to be considered. Firstlythe pluralistic and complex society and secondly, the fast development within the nation.For Papua, in particular during the special automony era, natural and economic resources were plentiful,while human resources lacking – in other words poor resource management or bad stewardship.Richard PangendahenFormer Priincipal Theological College of the Baptist Churches of Papua
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